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Katharine Smyth was a student when she first read Virginia Woolf's modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence she shared with her father. After his death - a calamity that claimed her favourite person - she returned to that beloved novel as a way of understanding her own grief. Smyth's story moves between the New England of her childhood and Woolf's Cornish shores and Bloomsbury squares, exploring universal questions about family, loss and homecoming. 

De un estilo crudo y frontal, este talentoso francés fue un novelista y dramaturgo que además de poeta, músico de jazz, ingeniero y traductor, escribió teatro, letra y música de canciones, cuentos y novelas. Tanto sus admiradas diez novelas como sus actuaciones de jazz lo elevaron a la fama en la literatura y en la música.