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_{In her childhood Virginia Woolf was a keen hunter of butterflies and moths.}

I first attempted to read Virginia Woolf in my early twenties – To the Lighthouse – I couldn’t get into it, even though I really wanted to.

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There was something about Virginia that fascinated me, but her writing was too dense for me, too different to what I was used to. At the time, I felt she would be a writer that I could only read as I got older. To do Virginia justice, I would need more life experience and more book experience.

So I’ve been saving myself.

A few years back I created my Virginia list (see Author Challenge page in menu tab) with the intention of reading her fiction in chronological order.

I read The Voyage Outin 2016 with a great deal of pleasure, but other than dabbling in some of her non-fiction, my VW journey has essentially been stalled by time, work, family life.

But then along cameSquare Hauntingby Francesca Wade earlier this year, and I rea