pVirginia Woolf was a leading member of the amp39Bloomsbury Groupamp39 of avantgarde writers. In March 1941 aged 59 and at the height of her fame she drowned herself in the River Ouse. She left behind a new work amp39Between the Actsamp39 which was published that same year. On the face of it amp39Between the Actsamp39 is a simple story with a seemingly inconsequential plot the tale of a village pageant and the thoughts and reactions of those watching the show. But Woolf uses this simple scenario to produce a penetrating dissection of human nature. The lack of plot is deliberate Woolf has the producer of the pageant say ampquotDid the plot matter ...The plot was only there to beget emotion. Donamp39t bother about the plot the plotamp39s nothingampquot. And so it proves. The story plays through on three levels the animal human and the spiritual each acting as counterpoint to the rest and all nested within the greater pageant of existence. With amp39Between the Actsamp39 Woolf created just prior to her own death a timeless masterpiece a perfect epitaph to her own genius. In the work one of her characters says of the landscape ampquot... so beautiful. It will be there when we are notampquot an apt and flawless appraisal of the book itself.p