A Home at the End of the World

A writer of great gifts. Cunningham's voice reaches that lyrical beauty in which even the grimmest events suggest their potential for grace

Intensely, almost painfully intimate. A superb and major novel

As well as being fluent and attractive, this intimate saga of our times is immensely wise

Cunningham writes with power and delicacy of his three characters. Yet each one retains the mystery that in people is called soul, and in fiction is called art

Extremely intelligent, moving and accomplished. Cunningham has mastered the art of evoking the richness of domestic lives

Michael Cunningham is the author of the novels Flesh and Blood, The Hours, Specimen Days and By Nightfall. He lives in New York.

'It was the start of my second new life, in a city that had a spin of its own - a wilder orbit inside the earth's calm blue-green whirl. New York wasn't open to the hopelessness and lost purpose that drifted around lesser places . . . ' 
 
Meet Bobby, Jonathan and Clare. Three friends, three lovers, three ordinary people trying to make a place for themselves in the harsh and uncompromising world of the Seventies and Eighties. 
 
And as our threesome form a new kind of relationship, a new approach to family and love, questioning so much about the world around them, so they hope to create a space, a home, in which to live.

Michael Cunningham

Fenella Woolgar

Rosamund Pike

Teresa Gallagher

Full Cast

I am so thrilled by the BBC's production of my novel, The Hours, and - believe me - a novelist does not thrill easily

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

**Winner of the Gold Award for Best Drama in the New York Festivals Radio Awards 2018*** 
 
A BBC radio adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Michael Cunningham, inspired by Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway 
 
Three separate women, living in different locations and eras, are linked by their passion for Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway. As they each live through a Tuesday in June, their thoughts and experiences mirror each other and become interwoven. 
 
In Richmond in 1923, Virginia Woolf struggles to write a novel whose protagonist is Mrs Dalloway. In Los Angeles in 1949, Laura ignores her chores and small son to sit in bed reading Mrs Dalloway. In 1990s New York, Clarissa goes to buy flowers for a party, mirroring the start of the fictional Mrs Dalloway’s day. The party is in honour of her sick friend Richard, who long ago dubbed her Mrs Dalloway. 
 
As their stories intertwine, they converge to become one, weaving together themes of storytelling, domestic tension, friendship, love, loss, parental guilt, loneliness, bisexuality and the challenges of hosting social rituals. 
 
Adapted by Sony Award-winning dramatist Frances Byrnes, this affecting dramatisation stars Fenella Woolgar as Virginia Woolf, Teresa Gallagher as Laura and Rosamund Pike as Clarissa. 
 
'I am so thrilled by the BBC's production of my novel, The Hours, and - believe me - a novelist does not thrill easily' - Michael Cunningham 
 
Cast 
Virginia/Kitty…Fenella Woolgar 
Laura...Gallagher 
Dan/Walter…Corey Johnson 
Richie…Jack Towbin 
Clarissa…Rosamund Pike 
Sally/Vanessa…Lia Williams 
Leonard/Louis…David Annen 
Nelly…Rachel Atkins 
Julia…Haley McGee 
Other voices by Sydney Beveridge and Josh Wakesberg 
 
Directed by Judith Kampfner and Polly Thomas 
Produced by Judith Kampfner 
A Corporation For Independent Media production for BBC Radio 4

Michael Cunningham

Praise for The Hours

I am so thrilled by the BBC's production of my novel, The Hours, and - believe me - a novelist does not thrill easily

Books by Michael Cunningham

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