Virginia Woolf remains one of the most widely read and celebrated writers of the 20th century, with To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway regularly appearing near the top of lists of the greatest novels of all time. Yet not all of her books are so well remembered.
Woolf’s second novel, Night and Day, published in 1919, is often seen as an anomaly. Unlike her more famous books, it has a realist, almost Victorian style and a slow, languorous plot. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it is one of the least read of Woolf’s works (compare the 366,000 Goodreads ratings for Mrs Dalloway to the 10,000 for Night and Day).
