The novel follows its six narrators from childhood through adulthood. In a 2015 poll conducted by BBC, The Waves was voted the 16th greatest British novel ever written. “Each character is distinct, yet together they compose a gestalt about a silent central consciousness”, according to a reviewer. As the six characters or "voices" speak, Woolf explores concepts of individuality, self and community. The dialogues that span the characters' lives are broken up by nine brief third-person interludes detailing a coastal scene at varying stages in a day from sunrise to sunset. Percival, a seventh character, appears in the soliloquies, though readers never hear him speak in his own voice. It is critically regarded as her most experimental work, consisting of ambiguous and cryptic soliloquies spoken mainly by six characters Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny and Louis. The Waves is a 1931 novel by English novelist Virginia Woolf.
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