The Voyage OutHelen and Ridley Ambrose are preparing to set off for an exotic resort off the coast of South America on the Euphrosyne, a ship belonging to Helens brother in law, Willoughby Vinacre. Also travelling with them is his daughter, Rachel a quiet, unremarkable girl raised in the London suburbs by her spinster aunts after the death of her mother. Along the way, other people join on board, such as the upper class Clarissa and Richard Dalloway and the scholar