‘Days of Light' dramatizes life within the Bloomsbury Group
A century ago, a young woman named Angelica Bell was growing up within the artistic Bloomsbury Group in Britain. For novelist Megan Hunter's third book, 'Days of Light,' the author borrows some, although not all, of the odd circumstances of Bell's coming of age, while also emulating the literary style of Bell's aunt, the novelist and Bloomsbury luminary Virginia Woolf.
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