Now in paperback, this is a biography of Vita Sackville-West, best-known for creating, with her husband Harold Nicolson, the gardens at Sissinghurst Castle. She was also an award-winning poet, a bestselling novelist, a biographer, a travel writer and a journalist, a reluctant courtier, recluse, lesbian and iconoclast. This was chosen as a book of the year by }The Times, Independent{ and }Observer{ Aristocrat, literary celebrity, 'Rose Queen', devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast - Vita Sackville-West was many things, but she was never straightforward. Her life is re-told here in a dazzling new biography.
