Juliet Stevenson
2) Persuasion
5) The letters
7) Being Julia
9) Diana
10) Pericles
12) Bloomsbury girls
"The Golden Notebook is Doris Lessing's most important work and has left its mark upon the ideas and feelings of a whole generation of women." — New York Times Book Review
Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism.
...On the evening of 15 June 1815, the great and the good of British society have gathered in Brussels at what is to become one of the most tragic parties in history - the Duchess of Richmond's ball. For this is the eve of the Battle of Waterloo, and many of the handsome young men attending...
17) Mrs. Dalloway
Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
"Wonderful... completely transporting." —Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe and The Song of Achilles
""Historical fiction at its finest, combining myth and legend with the brutal realities of the past. . . . Comparisons will be drawn to the works of contemporary authors Sarah Waters and Michael
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