To the Lighthouse--------------------------------------------------I am making up To the Lighthouse - the sea is to be heard all throughit' Inspired by the lost bliss of her childhood summers in Cornwall,Virginia Woolf produced one of the masterworks of English literaturein To the Lighthouse. It concerns the Ramsay family and their summerguests on the Isle of Skye before and after the First World War. Aschildren play and adults paint, talk, muse and explore, relationshipsshift and mutate. A captivating fusion of elegy, autobiography, socio-politicalcritique and visionary thrust, it is the most accomplished of all Woolf'snovels. On completing it, she thought she had exorcised the ghostsof her imposing parents, but she had also brought form to a book everybit as vivid and intense as the work of Lily Briscoe, the indomitableartist at the centre of the novel.