All Passion Spent Vita Sackville-West

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A charming extraordinary early 20th century novel about family relationships.

When the great statesman Lord Slane dies, everyone assumes his dutiful wife will slowly fade away, the paying guest of each of her six children.

All Passion Spent Summary

All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West

A charming extraordinary early 20th century novel about family relationships.

When the great statesman Lord Slane dies, everyone assumes his dutiful wife will slowly fade away, the paying guest of each of her six children. But Lady Slane surprises everyone by escaping to a rented house in Hampstead where she revels in her new freedom, revives youthful ambitions and gathers some very unsuitable companions. Irreverent, entertaining and insightful, this is a tale of the unexpected joys of growing older.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOANNA LUMLEY

All Passion Spent Reviews

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 *

About Vita Sackville-West

Victoria Mary Sackville-West, known as Vita, 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 70.

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GOR008595015

ISBN 13

9781784870553

ISBN 10

1784870552

Title

All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West

Author

Vita Sackville-West

Condition

Used - Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

2016-03-24

Number of pages

192

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