In her landmark Pilgrimage Dorothy Richardson pioneered the English ‘stream of consciousness’. Echoing the style of Marcel Proust, and predating the work of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, she created an intimate narrative on an epic scale. Across 13 novels – which she considered to be ‘chapters’ – she details the thoughts and experiences of Miriam Henderson, exploring her journey towards creative independence and revealing feminine consciousness in unprecedented depth.

In Volume 2 (containing The Tunnel and Interim), Miriam – alone in London – works by day and walks by night. In her quest for meaning and excitement she is infectiously alive to every impression in this vibrant, bewildering city. Her introspective narration, beautifully voiced here by Lucy Scott, captures fleeting thoughts, tiny events and shifts in mood to paint a vivid psychological portrait.

Please be advised that this audiobook occasionally contains language that listeners today may find offensive.