"Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel" by Mark Hussey

This short book has been published to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of Virginia Woolf's great work. Interesting and thought-provoking in all kinds of ways, the book discusses the writing of the novel, its reception in the 1920s, its extraordinary influence on future writers of all kinds and its gradual rise to the canonical status it now enjoys.

Hussey argues that Virginia Woolf was far more influenced by Marcel Proust than James Joyce when planning and conceiving 'Mrs Dalloway', and later heaps praise on Michael Cunningham's 'The Hours' which I have never read and must. I loved the film with that amazing score by Philp Glass and saw it long enough ago now to be able to appreciate the Cunningham novel on its own merits.