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Sissinghurst, An Unfinished History
Adam Nicolson
The Quest to Restore a Working Farm at Vita Sackville-West's Legendary Garden
Penguin
May 2010
On Sale: May 6, 2010
352 pages
ISBN: 0670021733
EAN: 9780670021734
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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, lover of Virginia
Woolf. As a boy, Adam Nicolson, Sackville-West's grandson,
spent his days romping through Sissinghurst's woods,
streams, and fields. In this book, he returns to the place
of his bucolic youth and finds that the estate, now operated
by Britain's National Trust, has lost something precious. It
is still unquestionably a place of calm and beauty but, he
asks, where is the working farm, the orchards, the cattle
and sheep? Nicolson convinces the Trust to embrace a simple
idea: Grow lunch for the two hundred thousand annual
visitors. Sissinghurst is a personal biography of a place
and an inspiring story of one man's quest to return a
remarkable landscape to its best, most useful purpose.
Nicolson is an entertaining and charming writer and this
book will capture fans of Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, and
Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.
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