To the Lighthouse

Surrounded by friends and family, the Ramsays mostly spend their summers at their summerhouse at the Isle of Skye. One year the family plans to go to the island s lighthouse but the visit does not happen. Time changes and so does their world. Mrs Ramsay dies. Two out of eight children also die. The remaining Ramsays visit the Isle after ten years and make the long postponed visit to the lighthouse. To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf s magnum opus. Reminiscent of her childhood memories it explores the intricacies of the nature of relationships in childhood and adult life and the other complexities of life. Together with Mrs. Dalloway it is ranked among the top hundred English novels of the twentieth century