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This novel of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell âcaptures the sistersâ seesaw dynamic as they vacillate between protecting and hurting each otherâ (The Christian Science Monitor).  You see, even after all these years, I wonder if you really loved me. Vanessa and Virginia are sisters, best friends, bitter rivals, and artistic collaborators. As children, they fight for the attention of their overextended mother, their brilliant but difficult father, and their adored brother, Thoby. As young women, they support each other through a series of devastating deaths, then emerge in bohemian Bloomsbury, bent on creating new lives and groundbreaking works of art. Through everythingâmarriage, lovers, loss, madness, children, success and failureâthe sisters remain the closest of co-conspirators. But they also betray each other. In this lyrical, impressionistic account, written as a love letter and an elegy from Vanessa to Virginia, Susan Sellers imagines her way into the heart of the lifelong relationship between writer Virginia Woolf and painter Vanessa Bell. With sensitivity and fidelity to what is known of both lives, Sellers has created a powerful portrait of sibling rivalry, and âbeautifully imagines what it must have meant to be a gifted artist yoked to a sister of dangerous, provocative geniusâ (Cleveland Plain Dealer).  âA delectable little book for anyone who ever admired the Bloomsbury group. . . . A genuine treat.â âPublishers Weekly |
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