Mrs Dalloway Londres, juin 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, femme de la haute société, s'affaire à préparer une grande soirée, et sort acheter les fleurs elle-même. Entre passé et présent, Virginia Woolf nous invite au coeur des pensées intimes de Clarissa.Au fil de ses pas, les souvenirs remontent, les heures sonnent, et la fête qui s'annonce devient le miroir d'une vie entière.
(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.
During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."