One character in this novel delays the carefully timed serving of "Boeuf au Daube" at a dinner party by inappropriately asking for another cup of soup. Another of its characters laments his inability to mentally get past the letter "Q" in the alphabet. The phrase "Someone had blundered" from "The Charge of the Light Brigade" recurs throughout its first section, in which Minta (*) Doyle becomes engaged to Paul Rayley. Mrs. Bast and Mrs. McNabb restore the central house in its second section, "Time Passes", which describes Prue dying in childbirth. Lily Briscoe completes
One character in this novel delays the carefully timed serving of "Boeuf au Daube" at a dinner party by inappropriately asking for another cup of soup. Another of its characters laments his inability to mentally get past the letter "Q" in the alphabet. The phrase "Someone had blundered" from "The Charge of the Light Brigade" recurs throughout its first section, in which Minta (*) Doyle becomes engaged to Paul Rayley. Mrs. Bast and Mrs. McNabb restore the central house in its second section, "Time Passes", which describes Prue dying in childbirth. Lily Briscoe completes her abstract portrait in this book's final section, while James and Cam complete the title journey with their father Mr. Ramsay. For 10 points, name this 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf.
One character in this novel delays the carefully timed serving of "Boeuf au Daube" at a dinner party by inappropriately asking for another cup of soup.
To the Lighthouse