Virginia Woolf 
Mrs. Dalloway 

In 1923 in London, on a day in June, Clarissa Dalloway, wife of a member to the House of Lords, goes out to buy flowers for the party that will give that evening and will bring together in his beautiful house many important characters. As she walks, his memory back to events of a summer spent in the countryside many years before, when she was young and much courted.