I don't know about the rest of you, but when I hear "Virginia Woolf", I tend to think "stream of consciousness", and since I'm not a huge fan of that, I generally shy away from her books. No doubt that's silly.

Anyway, Melymbrosia - not a famous novel, in fact not actually a published novel of hers, but rather an older draft of her first published novel "The Voyage Out", painstakingly reconstructed in the eighties by editor Louise DeSalvo from various surviving fragments. And not stream of consciousness at all. Enjoying it a lot, in any case - supposedly this version is more radical and blunt on many points than the eventually published novel, and so far she has indeed already shown some incisive insights into early 20th century British society, arrogance and colonialism. And if there are a few places here and there that do show clearly that this draft was not quite ready for publishing, that only makes it more fascinating in a way.