Emily & Virginia

This is a coming-of-age novel in which Emily Dickinson & Virginia Woolf return to this world and join forces to protect & assist a young woman artist Lily as she grows into her full power in love & work. Artfully written to appeal to adults and younger readers of serious literary fiction the story takes place almost entirely in Ashland Oregon and features appearances by several of the legendary Bloomsbury group including Virginias sister Vanessa Bell and husband Leonard as well as Emilys sister Lavinia. The Mother Goddess of Ireland Brigid appears in an early segment. She grants Virginias petition to return to this realm to help Lily and it is she who also decides to send Emily Dickinson with her. Readers of Emilys poems and Virginias To the Lighthouse which this novel structurally mirrors will discover added delight in echoes and allusions to the lives and works of these great writers.