Set against the backdrop of a seaside dreamscape, Virginia Woolfs experimental novel, The Waves, follows the lives of six childrenBernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny and Louisfrom birth to death as they fleetingly unite around the elusive figure of a seventh child, Percival. Largely abandoning traditional plot structure, The Waves recounts the thoughts, feelings and perceptions of all six characters in a series of interwoven soliloquies that simultaneously span the course of their lives and t ...