The Ramsay family first visit the Isle of Skye in 1910. Six-year-old James . wants to go to the lighthouse they can see from their window and his mother tells him they go the next day if the weather permits... Following in the footsteps of Marcel Proust and James Joyce, this modernist tour-de-force questions who and what we are and how we perceive the world as we trudge through time. A haunting and beautiful meditation on the transience of life, absence, and the inevitability of death, To the Lighthouse is a psychological masterpiece from one of the world's greatest writers.