Mrs Keppel And Her Daughter
by:
Diana Souhami (author)
ISBN:
9780007624096 (0007624093)
Edition language: English
Let the cat fight begin! In the red corner, Diana Souhami, defender of Violet Trefusis. In the blue corner, Nigel Nicolson, son of Vita Sackville-West and representing her point of view. No, I'm not going to try and write this as a ring report, but for the most part of reading both in parallel i...
I'd read Violet and Vita's letters to each other a few years ago, so I knew all the basics, but it was nice to get Mrs. Keppel's story as well. Violet and Vita always strike as so sad, because it's so much misery and heartbreak and emotional cruelness and desperation, all because they couldn't be to...