Super Short Summary

In Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, the Ramsay family and their guests navigate their internal lives and relationships during their stay at a summer house on the Isle of Skye. The narrative spans a decade, divided into three parts, focusing initially on six-year-old James Ramsay's desire to visit the nearby lighthouse, which is thwarted, and culminating in a future revisitation to the house wherein Lily Briscoe completes a painting she began years earlier. The novel sensitively addresses the topics of grief and parental loss.