The Ramsay family and their guests gather at their summer home on the Isle of Skye, where young James longs to visit the lighthouse across the bay — a trip endlessly promised and endlessly postponed. Spanning a single day and then, in a devastating middle section, ten years in which war and loss reshape the family entirely, Virginia Woolf's 1927 masterpiece captures grief, memory, and the passage of time with a psychological depth few novels have matched since. Widely regarded as one of the finest novels of the twentieth century, it remains Woolf's most beloved and most studied work.