For Sale, the "cage" from which Virginia Woolfe longed to escape. For a mere £1.5 million, you could own the penthouse flat at 22 Hyde Park Gate: once the study and attic of the house where the novelist and suicide Virginia Woolfe was born and grew up. Scene of her incestuous sexual abuse and interminable misery, the walls and curtains however are no longer black and by the looks of the particulars on Hobart Slater's website the flat is really rather spiffy.