All Passion Spent (Vintage Classics)

Irreverently funny and surprisingly moving, All Passion Spent is the story of a woman who discovers who she is just before it is too late. After the death of elder statesman Lord Slaneùa former prime minister of Great Britain and viceroy of Indiaùeveryone assumes that his eighty-eight-year-old widow will slowly fade away in her grief, remaining as proper, decorative, and dutiful as she has been her entire married life. But the deceptively gentle Lady Slane has other ideas. First she defies the patronizing meddling of her children and escapes to a rented house in Hampstead. There, to her offspringÆs utter amazement, she revels in her new freedom, recalls her youthful ambitions, and gathers some very unsuitable companionsùwho reveal to her just how much she had sacrificed under the pressure of othersÆ expectations.

• | Author: Vita Sackville-West
• | Publisher: Vintage
• | Publication Date: Jul 11, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 192 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 052543397X
• | ISBN-13: 9780525433972