Have You Been Good? A Memoir

1st ed, 1st imp. 312pp. Red cloth boards (strong, bright, square). Neat, clean and tight throughout. In its original dust jacket (with gentle edge wear). Vanessa Nicolson, the granddaughter of Vita Sackville West and Harold Nicolson, was born to an illustrious name and an unhappy marriage. Her father, a gay art historian, split from Vanessa's mother when she was very young. This is a powerful and meditative memoir of a disjointed childhood and a tragic motherhood. Nicolson still lives at the family seat in Sissinghurst, Kent. Dust jacket now in archival-quality mylar wrapper to protect & prolong the life of the jacket. It is not adhered to the book or to the dust jacket.