This book tries to give a simple and clear idea about Virginia Woolf's writings. It also focuses on her private life both within the Bloomsbury group and in the victorian society of the time. But the most important aspect that the book treats is her love for paintings and the way the latter influenced her novels, And mainly the abstract arts. She was fascinated by a lot of visual artists and especially Wassily Kandinsky. She tried in almost all her novels to see her work as a painter. This can be seen clearlyin both Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. Just by reading the whole book one can discover beautiful things about her and the society of that period