An entirely original portrait of a young writer shutting out the din in order to
find her own voice
On April 11, 1931, Virginia Woolf ended her entry in A Writer's Diary with the
words "too much and not the mood." She was describing how tired she was of
correcting her own writing, of the "cramming in and the cutting out" to please
other readers, wondering if she had anything at all that was truly worth saying.
The character of that sentiment, the attitude of it, inspired Durga Chew-Bose
to write and collect her own work. The result is a lyrical and piercingly
insightful collection