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The Waves traces the lives of six friends from childhood to old age. It was written when Virginia Woolf was at the height of her experimental literary powers, and she allows the characters to tell their own stories, through powerful, poetic monologues. By listening to these voices struggling to impose order and meaning on their lives, we are drawn into a literary journey that stunningly reproduces the complex, confusing, and contradictory nature of human experience.

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London, the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen, first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. From 1915 when she published her first novel, The Voyage Out, Woolf maintained an astonishing output of fiction, literary criticism, essays, and biography. In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf, and in 1917 they founded the Hogarth Press. Woolf suffered a series of mental breakdowns throughout her life, and on March 28, 1941, she committed suicide.

Frances Jeater's theater work includes Gertrude in Hamlet; an American tour of Much Ado About Nothing; Middle and Far East tours of Harvey; and Prisoner of Second Avenue, Haymarket Theatre, London. She has also performed in The Comedy of Errors, Solstice, and Coriolanus with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Present Laughter with the National Theatre. Frances has always enjoyed working for BBC Radio Drama and recording audiobooks.