Vanessa & Virginia

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 attention from 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 everythingmarriage lovers loss madness children success and failurethe sisters remain the closest of co-conspirators. But they also betray each other. In this lyrical impressionistic account written as a love letter and elegy from Vanessa to Virginia Sellers imagines her way into the heart of the lifelong relationship between writer Virginia Woolf and painter Vanessa Bell. With sensitivity imagination and fidelity to what it known of both lives Sellers has created a powerful portrait of sibling rivalry.