More than almost any other woman of her time, Virginia Woolf represents the fight for independence, for a room of one’s own, for an unmistakable voice. There was an overabundance of everything in her life – including darkness.
In March 1941, the famous author falls into her last great crisis: she has just finished a new book, German bombers fly above the small cottage in the south of England which she shares with her husband Leonard. She leads the life of a prisoner who doesn't know how and where to escape - and in the end she decides in favour of the river.
Kumpfmüller impressively conjures up these last days of Virginia Woolf in his new novel. Ach, Virginia is a literary portrait, a passionate plea for life, an attempt at rapprochement. At the end of which there is the realization that one does not have to approve of everything one can comprehend.
