All Passion Spent
Vita Sackville-West Audio Book

'All Passion Spent' is a portrait of a fiercely independent woman trying, late in life, to escape the clutches of an over-solicitous family.

In 1860, as an unmarried girl of 17, Lady Slane nurtures a secret, burning ambition - to become an artist. She becomes, instead, the wife of a great statesman, Henry, the first Earl of Slane, and the mother of six children. Seventy years later, released by widowhood, she abandons the family home in Elm Park Gardens, much to the dismay of her pompous sons and daughters.