A fascinating insight into the complex personality of the novelist. The letters range from witty and irreverent to melancholy and introspective, with intimations of the bouts of mental illness that were to lead Woolf to take her own life. 'A true letter', she insisted, 'should be like a film of wax pressed close to the graving of the mind'. The book contains background information along with samples of Woolf’s handwriting, biographical notes on the main recipients and a family tree. Illustrated throughout with photographs, paintings and sketches.