Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway – is a landmark modernist novel by Virginia Woolf. It is celebrated for its innovative use of the stream of consciousness technique, which allows readers to experience the fluid, interior lives of its characters rather than a traditional linear plot. The novel takes place over a single Wednesday in mid-June 1923 in post-World War I London. It follows two primary, parallel storylines that never physically meet but are thematically linked,  An upper-class socialite and wife of an MP who spends the day preparing for a high-society party she is hosting that evening. Her walk through London to buy flowers triggers a flood of memories about her youth, her rejected suitor Peter Walsh, and her old friend Sally Seton.