Victoria Glendinning

Recycling Sackville-West style

A review of Sarah Raven’s Vita Sackville-West’s Sissinghurst: The Creation of a Garden. Haven't we had enough cuttings from Vita Sackville-West by now?

Vita Sackville-West gardening at Sissinghurst [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy] 
issue 22 March 2014

  • Vita Sackville-West’s Sissinghurst: The Creation of a Garden

    Vita Sackville-West and Sarah Raven

    Virago, pp. 382

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