Lolly Willowes
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  • Published: 20 October 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241454886
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $24.99

Lolly Willowes

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Hardback
29 Nov 2022
EBook
1 Oct 2020
Audiobook
15 Apr 2021
Paperback
20 Oct 2020
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Townsend Warner's best-loved and most famous novel, telling the story of a middle-aged woman who gloriously becomes a witch

Lolly Willowes, always so gentle and accommodating, suddenly announces that she is moving, alone, to the countryside. To her overbearing family in London, it is a disturbing and inexplicable act of defiance. But Lolly will not be swayed, and in the depths of the English countryside she gradually discovers not only freedom and independence, but also, unexpectedly, her true vocation: witchcraft.
  • Published: 20 October 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241454886
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Sylvia Townsend Warner

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Praise for Lolly Willowes

The book I'll be pressing into people's hands forever is Lolly Willowes [. . .] Starting as a straightforward, albeit beautifully written family saga, it tips suddenly into extraordinary, lucid wildness.

Helen McDonald, The New York Times Book Review

Sylvia Townsend Warner moves with sombre confidence into the realm of the supernatural, and her prose, in its simple, abrupt evocations, has something preternatural about it

John Updike

A great shout of life and individuality.

Justine Jordan, Guardian

My comfort read

Tracey Thorn
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