The beginning of the great saga about the women of Bloomsbury. London, 1903. While her sister Vanessa wants to study art, the highly intelligent Virginia desires only one thing: to write - in a new form that is appropriate for the modern world. Together with her brothers, they establish a communal living arrangement in Bloomsbury, which soon becomes a haven of intellectual freedom and inspiration. However, the society of their time offers no life of freedom for unmarried women, and Virginia is repeatedly urged to find a husband. A surprising and captivating novel about Virginia Woolf - an icon of literary modernism and the women's movement. "He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our lives." Virginia Woolf.