Family History

Vita Sackville-West author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:1st Feb '18

Should be back in stock very soon

Family History cover

The sequel to The Edwardians - a novel of high society in a changing world.

Evelyn, aged thirty-nine, is an attractive widow living an irreproachable life. Evelyn, deeply jealous and conventional is shocked at her lover's casual ways and his insistence on working all day. Miles’s love for Evelyn is real but he cannot devote himself wholly to her whims.Evelyn, aged thirty-nine, is an attractive widow living an irreproachable life. Then she meets Miles, fifteen years her junior, and falls passionately in love. But both lovers have strong personalities and passion does not equal happiness. Evelyn, deeply jealous and conventional is shocked at her lover's casual ways and his insistence on working all day. Miles’s love for Evelyn is real but he cannot devote himself wholly to her whims. Vita Sackville-West collides attitudes to work, sex and society in the changing world of the early 1930s.

I guarantee that like Harold Nicolson, who was reading Family History on the train between Staplehurst and Charing Cross, most readers will “weep copiously” -- Victoria Glendinning
Glamorous aristocrat, complete with ancient name, Spanish Gypsy blood, lost inheritance and family scandals; reckless, romantic lesbian and cross-dresser; devoted wife to a noted diplomat and diarist; mother of two talented sons; bestselling writer, gardener of genius - what could be more enthralling? -- Hermione Lee * Guardian *
Tears, tantrum, age gap… utterly addictive. Tissues ahoy. * Daily Mail *

ISBN: 9781784873479

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 19mm

Weight: 214g

304 pages