Best Selling Books by Nigel Nicolson

An intimate portrait of one of our greatest and most fascinating writers is presented by Nicolson, the distinguished son of British writers Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West--one of Woolf''s closest friends and sometime lover.

Vita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgynous time-traveler in Orlando. The story of her love affair with Violet Keppel Trefusis in 1920 is one of intrigue and bewilderment. In Portrait of a Marriage, Nigel Nicolson combines his mother''s vivid memoir of escapade with what he learned from copious family letters and explains the context of this romantic crisis. He also describes how Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson went on to live the rest of their lives in harmonious marriage.

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The younger son of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West, Nigel Nicolson grew up in a world that combined Eton with Sissinghurst, Oxford with uninhabited islands in the Outer Hebrides. In this compelling autobiography, traveler, soldier, politician, publisher and author Nigel Nicolson paints a vivid portrait of a truly fascinating life. of photos.