Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson (1973) is the story of an unconventional union, written by one of the couple’s two sons, Nigel Nicolson.

Vita Sackville-West was a novelist and poet was known for her role in the Bloomsbury circle and her intense friendship with Virginia Woolf;  Harold Nicolson was a  diplomat and scholar.

Though neither admitted it to the other when they were courting and in the early days of their marriage, both were primarily attracted to members of their own sex. Read More→