Mrs Dalloway follows the elegant Clarissa Dalloway as she prepares her home for a glittering high-society party, while Septimus Smith grapples with the lingering effects of shell shock. Though their lives could not seem more different. Dalloway a middle-aged woman immersed in the upper-class world of interwar London, Smith a young, traumatised veteran their stories intertwine to reveal a haunting and poignant portrait of life in the city.
