A Novel in a Day- Virginia Woolf
Titled 'The Hours' originally, the 100 years old 'Mrs Dalloway' clearly shows Woolf's fascination with the idea of capturing an entire life in a single day.
In Mrs Dalloway, she gave Clarissa Dalloway a single summer day in London, and it was enough to hold everything—her memories, regrets, longings, and quiet joys.
From the moment she steps out to buy the flowers to the end of the day where she turns her attention to Peter, nothing earth-shattering had happened. And yet everything had. A soul had been mapped. A life, shown not in chronology but in consciousness. It’s why readers still marvel: because in just one day, Woolf gave us a whole woman. And in doing so, she gave us a new way to read time itself.