Woolf

Throughout the novel, Rhys references Kant, De Beauvoir, Sartre, Virginia Woolf and Epictetus, among others, using knowledge as a balm and escape hatch.

Later in the book, she discusses the uniquely queer and effective partnership of Leonard and Virginia Woolf.

He went on to be regarded by many as the finest actor ever to emerge from Wales, starring in films including Cleopatra and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

She is also reportedly filming a screen adaptation of Virginia Woolf's comic novel Night and Day.

In 1992, Lodge published The Art of Fiction, an influential collection of essays on literary techniques citing classic examples from a wide range of writers including Henry James, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce.