All Passion SpentAll Passion Spent
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Current format, Book, 2017, First Vintage Classics edition, Available .Book, 2017
Current format, Book, 2017, First Vintage Classics edition, Available . Offered in 0 more formats"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 Slane--a former prime minister of Great Britain and viceroy of India--everyone 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 offspring's utter amazement, she revels in her new freedom, recalls her youthful ambitions, and gathers some very unsuitable companions--who reveal to her just how much she had sacrificed under the pressure of others' expectations"--
"Classic novel by English writer Vita Sackville-West about an elderly upper-class woman who loses her husband and rediscovers herself"--
"Classic novel by English writer Vita Sackville-West about an elderly upper-class woman who loses her husband and rediscovers herself"--
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