Clarissa Dalloway is about to give a reception, Septimus wanders in London. Two moments of the lives of two characters that take place simultaneously without any link. Gradually, as we plunged into reading the book a certain nervous tension one feels, that of Clarissa, then slowly starts to go crazy with Septimus ... Written forcefully Virginia Woolf control his story so well that it drowns us, grinds us with his characters. A classic.