Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf

Norah Vincent

Apr 2015 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Corrie James

About this audiobook

On April 18, 1941, twenty-two days after Virginia Woolf went for a walk near her weekend house in Sussex and never returned, her body was reclaimed from the River Ouse. Norah Vincent's Adeline reimagines the events that brought Woolf to the riverbank, offering us a denouement worthy of its protagonist.



With poetic precision and psychological acuity, Vincent channels Virginia and Leonard Woolf, T. S. and Vivienne Eliot, Lytton Strachey and Dora Carrington, laying bare their genius and their blind spots, their achievements and their failings, from the inside out. And haunting every page is Adeline, the name given to Virginia Stephen at birth, which becomes the source of Virginia's greatest consolation, and her greatest torment.

About the author

Norah Vincent is the New York Times bestselling author of several books, including Self-Made Man and Voluntary Madness. She has also contributed regularly to Salon, the Advocate, and the Village Voice. Norah lives in New York City.

Corrie James has worked on both sides of the Atlantic in theater, radio, and audiobooks. She credits growing up listening to the BBC for her love of the spoken word.