<p><b>In a single afternoon's walk, Virginia Woolf captures the infinite life of a garden...</b><br /><br />A couple pause among the flowerbeds, their thoughts drifting apart. A woman's mind fixes on a small, troubling mark on the wall. A chance meeting becomes an imagined life, rich with longing and regret. In six luminous, experimental stories, Virginia Woolf remakes the short story as a space of transcendence. Moving fluidly between inner lives and outward scenes, <i>Kew Gardens</i> captures moments of consciousness as they shimmer, fracture and pass, revealing the beauty and strangeness of everyday existence.<br /><br />Includes the stories: <i>Kew Gardens</i>, <i>The Mark on the Wall</i>, <i>An Unwritten Novel</i>, <i>Monday or Tuesday</i>, <i>The String Quartet </i>and <i>Blue & Green</i><br /><br /><b>BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days</b></p>