A review by danadalloway
All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West

5.0

This brief, gentle novel skewers social hypocrisy and shows how a single consciousness can transform the world as effectively as a prime minister (referring here to the protagonist and her husband). As Lady Slane muses listening to her great granddaughter, who wants to be a musician, "In the long run, with the strange bedlam always in the process of sorting itself out, as the present-day became history, the poets and prophets counted for more than the conquerors."