<p>Clarissa Dalloway elegant and vivacious is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London Septimus Warren Smith is shell-shocked and on the brink of madness. Smith’s day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax.</p><p>Past present and future are brought together on a momentous June day in 1923.</p>