Night and Day was an incredibly detailed study of four people - Mary, Katherine, Ralph and Rodney - as they negotiate their feelings for each other, their family and the world around them during pre-WWI England. Not at all surprising, the writing is stunningly impressive. Woolf expressed the minutest of feelings as vividly as setting and imagery, to the point where individual reflection felt like settings in and of themselves at times. And of course, the main characters fell into and out of love with one another at varying points in the book, lending a drop of Shakespearean comedy (of the Midsummer Night’s Dream variety) to an otherwise serious portrayal of changing and unpredictable emotions. The book can go on at times, and complaints that the content does not justify the length are not unfounded, but I personally did not mind spending more time than necessary with such insightful and expressive prose :-)