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

4.0

I had never read, nor really heard of Vita Sackville-West and then at some point Thomas from The Readers and hogglestock.com mentioned her. I picked this from the Bas Bleu catalog which always ahas an interesting selection of books and this was the perfect book to carry me through this part of December. Lady Shane is 88 years old and a recent, relieved widow. Truth be told she is not a huge fan of her 6 children, their spouses, her grandchildren or her great grandchildren. She is happy to move out of her house and into a rental in Hampstead which is out of the way for her family. Act two for her involves the owner of the house, the handyman and her maid Genoux, conversing and caring for her. Another old gentleman comes to visit and she realizes she met him in India where her husband had been the Viceroy of India before he became the Prime Minister of England. A lovely story, Sackville-West makes her point clear about women subsuming their lives for their husbands.