Date Of Review: March 28, 2025
Review Left On GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6857536161
Review Left On StoryGraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/fd75ec06-e1af-4a62-8c02-aae9dc979d5e

Lolly Willowes

Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner
Narrator: Sarah Nichols
Started: March 27, 2025
Finished: March 28, 2025
Genre: fantasy, classics
Length: 5 hours, 45 minutes
Part Of A Series: no
Type Of Book: audio
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13408586-lolly-willowes
Storygraph Link: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/514e035d-1fd0-476b-8d6d-e9e09df8288f

Review:

I really wanted to love this book. The GoodReads description made me think this books would resonate with me. And it did to a degree. One thing it had that I never will have, is the belief of Christian God & Devil.

Up until about 70% in was boring. I only kept listening as I was needing some other noise then music or the music from the games I was playing. The last 30% of the book I was flabbergasted. I don't know why either. I do know I probably would have been in somewhat the same circumstances back then, considering I just don't care about things now.

For the time this was written though? I can see why it was something special. It would have been a book I would have loved and would talk about non-stop.

Goodreads Description:

Lolly Willowes is a twenty-eight-year-old spinster when her adored father dies, leaving her dependent upon her brothers and their wives. After twenty years of self-effacement as a maiden aunt, she decides to break free and moves to a small Bedfordshire village. Here, happy and unfettered, she enjoys her new existence nagged only by the sense of a secret she has yet to discover. That secret – and her vocation – is witchcraft, and with her cat and a pact with the Devil, Lolly Willowes is finally free.

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