RURAL HOURS (PB)

In Rural Hours, Harriet Baker tells the story of three very different women, each of whom moved to the countryside and was forever changed by it. Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehmann emerge before us as the passionate, visionary writers we know them to be. Each of Baker's subjects is invigorated by new landscapes, and the daily trials and small pleasures of making a home. In the country, each woman finds her path: to convalescence and recovery, to sexual and political awakening and, above all, to personal freedom and creative flourishing.