Sissinghurst: A Castle’s Unfinished History: Restoring Vita Sackville-West’s Celebrated Estate, Nicolson, Adam. Published by McClelland & Stewart, 2010. First Canadian Edition. 8vo up to 9½” tall., 352pp. Green boards with gilt spine titles. A couple of soil marks to outside top edge and otherwise volume is in fine, unmarked condition. Dustjacket has a small cut to rear panel top edge and light shelf wear.
Sissinghurst Castle is a jewel in the English countryside. Its chief attraction is its celebrated garden, designed in the 1930s by the poet Vita Sackville-West. As a boy, Adam Nicolson, Sackville-West’s grandson, spent his days romping through Sissinghurst’s woods, streams, and field. Sissinghurst is a personal biography of a place and an inspiring story of Nicolson’s quest to return a remarkable landscape to its best, most useful purpose.
