Perhaps those who are doing the course/class/night school/module/replacement for Yoga for Beginniners, could indicate when they have finished reading NIGHT AND DAY please ? There are a lot of things to say about it.  But whether or not you have finished, you could ponder this.

VW more or less disowned the novel later. She had never really liked it, she said. You will find quite a bit about that in A WRITER`S DIARY and in various letters. But is this relevant to us, reading it now ? Does it matter what she thought and that she regarded it as a failure ?

A novel I wrote which I dislike now, and which I do not think convinces at all, won the Whitbread Prize and was shortlisted for Booker. It has not sold as well as my others by any means, so perhaps people agree with me not the judges. Does it matter what I think ?

A book, once it has left its author, goes on its way through the world to seek its fortune alone. As a Post modernist, I have to say that what VW thought does not matter a jot - it mattered to her but that should not affect our reading of it.

And yet.. she was surely her own best critic, as I am mine.

I find myself with a foot in both camps.

I would like you to read what she says about N and D both while she was writing it, and afterwards. But only once you have finished the novel.