Magical Realism

Lolly Willowes

by Alison Lurie

An aging spinster flees her suffocating family to a small English village, where she discovers freedom, witchcraft, and a life lived on her own terms. Sylvia Townsend Warner's 1926 novel is a quiet, radical argument for female autonomy, told with dry wit and a trace of the uncanny.

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