´A fantasy, impossible but delicious ... an exuberance of life and wit´ The Times Literary Supplement First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through the centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf´s own time. Written for the charismatic, bisexual writer Vita Sackville-West, this playful mock biography of a chameleon-like historical figure is both a wry commentary on gender and, in Woolf´s own words, a ´writer´s holiday´ which delights in its ambiguity and capriciousness.