Lolly Willowes

Little Clothbound Classics are miniature versions of famous books, decorated with colorful cloth and foil. Lolly Willowes is a story about a young woman who leaves her family and becomes a witch. The book is said to be "irresistible" and "extraordinary" and will be handed down for generations.

Format: Hardback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 25 August 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible,mini editions of short stories,novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers,designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.

Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon.

Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.

Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces that she is leaving London and moving, alone, to the depths of the countryside, her overbearing relatives are horrified.

But Lolly has a greater, far darker calling than family: witchcraft.

The book I'll be pressing into people's hands forever is Lolly Willowes . . . Starting as a straightforward, albeit beautifully written family saga, it tips suddenly into extraordinary, lucid wildness, Helen Macdonald.

Weight: 226g
Dimension: 118 x 168 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780241573785