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All Passion Spent

Vita Sackville-West,

Victoria Glendinning (Foreword)

Start date: December 1, 2014

Finish date: February 28, 2015

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Jun 22, 2014 Rosemary rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I loved this story of a gently eccentric old lady, first published in 1931. Deborah, Lady Slane, is the widow of a former Prime Minister of Britain and Viceroy of India. Ignoring the attempts of her bossy children to dictate her last years, she installs herself in a house in Hampstead with only one servant, her faithful French maid, and makes friends with the house agent/owner, the builder, and a millionaire who fell in love with her in her beautiful youth, when she gave up her artistic ambition ...more

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Jan 19, 2018 Kazen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I hoped I would like this book and I did - the writing is wonderful, the story is both of its time and timeless, and the characters are lovingly drawn and realized. What I did not expect, however, was to unsettle my husband as I read the last chapter on an airplane, wiping stray tears as I raced to finish before we landed.

"There there," he joked as the plane taxied to the gate. "It's all over now."

"Hush," I sniffled, head down. "Two pages to go."

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Sackville-West's writing grabbed me from the ...more

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