Portrait of a Marriage

During her various love affairs with women, Vita Sackville-West maintained a loving marriage with Harold Nicolson. Here, their son Nigel combines his mother's memoirs with his own explanations and what he learned from their many letters, to provide this portrait of a marriage.

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Vita Sackville-West, novelist, poet and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgenous time-traveller in "Orlando". This is the story of her marriage to Harold Nicolson. Their son Nigel combines his mother's memoirs with his own explanations and what he learned from their many letters. Even during Vita's various love affairs with women, she maintained a loving marriage with Harold.