All Passion Spent tells the marvellously cheering story of how, in widowhood, a conventional woman is finally able to defy her family

Sackville-West writes simply wonderfully and many passages make me laugh out loud

Heartening

Inspiring... Old age can be celebrated, not feared

Every page of this novel is a pleasure to read

Behind its lyrical prose is the idea of how important it is to lay claim to your own space, however late in life

Sackville-West's wickedly funny All Passions Spent is her best novel by a mile... Superb

A moving portrait of an old age in which something of the potential self can be recovered… Superb.

It’s the ideal moment for those not acquainted with her work to read this engaging, memorable novel… Written in engaging prose that is crisp and witty and hums with vitality… it tells us the important truth that life can begin again at eighty-eight.