Customer Reviews

The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I have long been interested in Virginia Woolf and her works but only recently have I come to admire and respect Vita Sackville-West also. This is a wonderful account of a close friendship between two highly intellectual women and the lives they led. If you are interested at all in either of these women, I highly recommend this book. You can either it read it in order or you can skip around to sections you find most interesting, it doesn't matter, you will get the same results. They had amazing and wonderful lives which they chose to share with each other and then left us their letters. This book is like finding a treasure!

I came to this book without knowing much about Vita Sackville West (just that I loved her book "all passion spent", and that she was, at one point, Virginia's lover), to my surprise and enjoyment I found out after reading it how deep their relationship was. How open, interesting, generous, complicated, funny, sweet, tender and amusing their relationship really was. It is a great read and if you are lucky to read the letters of Virginia Woolf (another great book, the letters of VW between 1925-1930), you get the whole view of what was going on between them. To anyone who loves Virgina Woolf this is a great book to read and to all the ones who have been intrigued by who Vita Sackville West was, this book is a great start, a really interesting one.