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"To the Lighthouse features the serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests who are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Virginia Woolf constructs a moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflicts within a marriage."--BOOK JACKET
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Hamish Macbeth, the laid-back constable of Lochdubh, Scotland has a happy life until things start happening. First his beloved Priscilla Halburton-Smythe returns from London with a fiance on her arm. Then, a paragon of housewifery named Trixie Thomas moves into Lochdubh with her lapdog husband in tow. And to top it off, Macbeth must solve Lochdubh's newest crime--the mysterious poisoning of the perfect wife.
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[1994]
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'To the Lighthouse' was Virginia Woolf's fifth novel, and was the first book to win her a large public. The story of an English middle class family in the years leading up to the First World War, it has remained the most popular of all her works.
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