Kew Gardens

Relish a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Virginia Woolf, modernist pioneer, in this radiant prose-poem of gardens, voices, and shifting perspectives

In a single afternoon's walk, Virginia Woolf captures the infinite life of a garden...

A couple pause among the flowerbeds, their thoughts drifting apart. A woman’s mind fixes on a small, troubling mark on the wall. A chance meeting becomes an imagined life, rich with longing and regret. In six luminous, experimental stories, Virginia Woolf remakes the short story as a space of transcendence. Moving fluidly between inner lives and outward scenes, Kew Gardens captures moments of consciousness as they shimmer, fracture and pass, revealing the beauty and strangeness of everyday existence.

Includes the stories: Kew Gardens, The Mark on the Wall, An Unwritten Novel, Monday or Tuesday, The String Quartet and Blue & Green

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days.

** The perfect stocking filler for short fiction readers**