The Waves

Paperback Published on: 23/04/2026
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Synopsis

'But tonight we will be together'

Rhoda. Bernard. Susan. Neville. Jinny. Louis.

They begin by the coast. Then, school. Youth. Forming. Swelling. Terror. Joy. Working. Falling. Fame. Grief. Alone. Together.

A tender, thrilling story about growing up together, Flora Wilson Brown's heart-thumping adaptation of Virginia Woolf's modernist masterpiece The Waves was first performed at Jermyn Street Theatre, London, in 2026.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Nick Hern Books
  • ISBN: 9781839045813
  • Number of pages: 112
  • Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 8 mm
  • Weight: 129g
  • Languages: English

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The Waves
Hmm
You either like Virginia Woolf or you don't. I find that if I read continously through the pages without stopping, there'll come a sentence which turns my ... READ MORE
Dan4385
The Waves
“So strange is the contact of one with another"
I expect to re-read “The Waves” (1931), in part because its (Modernist) difficulty is likely to release new meanings, rather than confirm assumptions or pr... READ MORE
Douglas Tallack