Ambitious homage to Woolf falters on overlong journey

Virginia Woolf in Manhattan

**By** Maggie Gee

**Telegram,** €18.90

**Reviewed by** Joanne Hayden

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As a writer, Maggie Gee has forged her own path. Since her inclusion in the Granta list of Best Young British novelists in 1983, she has produced a body of work that evades easy categorisation. Her novels tend to engage with big themes such as racism (The White Family, 2002) and climate change (The Ice People, 1998; The Flood, ...