TY - GEN AU - Woolf, Virginia ED - Winterson, Jeanette (Fr.) TI - Waves SN - 9781784870843 U1 - 823.912 WOO PY - 2000/// CY - London PB - Vintage KW - Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction KW - Friendship -- Fiction KW - Coming of age -- Fiction KW - Families -- Fiction KW - Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction KW - Bereavement -- Fiction KW - London (England) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel. It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship, love and grief at the death of their beloved friend Percival. Regarded by many as her greatest work, The Waves is also seen as Virginia Woolf's response to the loss of her brother Thoby, who died when he was twenty-six ER -