The years

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London. A rainy day in 1880. The Pargiter children sit in their cluttered Victorian drawing-room staring through the windows and waiting for their mother to die. Her death will set them free to live their lives as they please. Or so they imagine. But the Victorian age is also a long time dying, and the scars it leaves fade slowly. This is the story of the Pargiter family from the 1880s to the 1930s, a period of immense and exciting change. For some, the causes of their youth become the conservatism of another era. For others the search goes on, for new experiences, for wider horizons. The Years was, during Virginia Woolf's lifetime, her most popular work and it remains her most accessible. Written with sympathy, insight and lively wit, it explores the ways in which the forces of society oppress the individual spirit.