Goodreads asked Fiona Stocker:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Fiona Stocker I read about Sissinghurst Castle Garden years ago in the Sunday Times. The description of the garden, formal closer to the houses and then looser and freer in design the closer it gets to the woods, stayed with me. Like many people, I watched the TV serialisation of Portrait of a Marriage, the story of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson's extraordinary lives, and have remained intrigued by them over the years. I always knew I would visit, or read more about them, or perhaps write something, and finally, decades later, it happened.

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