Flush is a purebred cocker spaniel with an extreme sensitivity to human emotions. He enters the life of Elizabeth Barrett, England’s most admired poetess, during one of her most difficult moments. Animal and human will almost immediately establish an unusual bond. Flush will accompany Elizabeth through her darkest days, be a sorrowful witness to her romance with the poet Robert Browning, and follow her in her escape to Italy in pursuit of the happiness that will restore her health. Flush is an original, tender, and humorous story in which Woolf returns to recurring themes such as life in Victorian London and class differences, this time through the innocent eyes of a dog, making it one of the most charming novels in contemporary literature.
Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941) was one of the central figures of 20th-century literary modernism. Daughter of the critic and historian Leslie Stephen, she grew up in a deeply intellectual environment that shaped her education from a very young age. She soon became one of the most influential voices of the so-called Bloomsbury Group, a decisive circle in British cultural renewal, where she developed her interest in feminism, aesthetic experimentation, and new ways of narrating inner experience.
During the 1920s, together with Leonard Woolf, she founded the publishing house Hogarth Press, through which she promoted both her own work and that of key authors of her time. Novels such as Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse transformed contemporary narrative through their exploration of consciousness and subjective time. In 1941, after several depressive episodes worsened by the context of World War II in the United Kingdom, she took her own life. Her work remains an essential reference in modern literature.
