Life begins at 88- a widow escapes her overbearing family and discovers the unexpected freedoms of old age
Vita Sackville-West was born in 1892 at Knole in Kent, the only child of aristocratic parents. In 1913 she married diplomat Harold Nicolson, with whom she had two sons and travelled extensively before settling at Kent's Sissinghurst Castle in 1930, where she devoted much of her time to creating its now world-famous garden. Throughout her life Sackville-West had a number of other relationships with both men and women, and her unconventional marriage would later become the subject of a biography written by her son Nigel Nicolson. Though she produced a substantial body of work, amongst which are writings on travel and gardening, Sackville-West is best known for her novels The Edwardians (1930) and All Passion Spent (1931), and for the pastoral poem The Land (1926), which was awarded the prestigious Hawthornden Prize. Sackville-West died on 2 June 1962 at her Sissinghurst home, aged seventy.
All Passion Spent tells the marvellously cheering story of
how, in widowhood, a conventional woman is finally able to defy her
family * Guardian *
Sackville-West writes simply wonderfully and many passages make me
laugh out loud -- Joanna Lumley
Heartening * Observer *
Inspiring... Old age can be celebrated, not feared * Sunday
Telegraph *
Every page of this novel is a pleasure to read * The Times *
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