Night and Day

Night and Day, Woolf’s second novel, set in pre-WWI London, focuses on two main characters, Ralph Denham and Katharine Hilbery. The story traces the course of their relationship from a first encounter at an afternoon tea at the Hilbery’s comfortable Chelsea mansion through a number of meetings, and the complications of other romantic entanglements, with the pair struggling to admit their true feelings to themselves or those around them. "All of the characters are drawn with art; their thoughts and actions are minutely observed and dissected. In point of literary style the book is distinctive." -The New York Times