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

3.0

This was an unusual book. I enjoyed the beginning and the end the most, when Lady Slane's appalling children were entertaining. The middle however was boring and unconvincing. I didn't believe in Lady Slane as a thwarted artist at all, and I didn't believe in her love for her husband either. She seemed incapable of any warm emotion at all. Then there was Mr Bucktrout, who seemed to have wandered in from a Dickens novel...