Between the Acts

'Thats what makes a view so sad, and so beautiful. It'll be there when we're not.' Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf's final novel, is a haunting meditation on performance, history and the fleeting nature of life. Published posthumously in 1941, Woolf's remarkable novel unfolds over the course of a single summer's day in a country house, just before the beginning of the Second World War. As local ...