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'Surely the definitive biography.' -- Harold Acton
'Superb... much more than just a record of events but an opening up of understanding and experience.' -- Fiona McCarthy, The Times
'It required both literary skill of the highest order and a rare imaginative compassion to fashion a work of art out of life... superb.' --Dervla Murphy, Irish Times
'Her modest, masterly, well-written treatment of a subject so absorbing in both intimate detail and public ramification is as good as it could be.' -- Country Life
'Again and again, I found myself turning to my battered paperback of Victoria Glendinning's Whitbread prize-winning biography of Sackville-West' --Guardian
Victoria Glendinning is a biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist. Her biographies include A Suppressed Cry: Life and Death of a Quaker Daughter; Elizabeth Bowen: Portait of a Writer; Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions (winner of the Duff Cooper Prize and the James Tait Black Prize); Rebecca West; Anthony Trollope (winner of the Whitbread Prize for Biography), Jonathan Swift, Leonard Woolf and a life of Sir Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore. Her novels include The Grown-Ups, Electricity, Flight and The Butcher’s Daughter.
She is an Honorary Vice-President of English PEN and Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded a CBE in 1998.
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