An affectionate, but not uncritical biography of one of the most remarkable women of her age Nigel Nicolson knew Virginia Woolf well when he was a child - his family was close friends with Virginia and Leonard Woolf Nigel Nicolson's mother, Vita Sackville-West, was the lover of Virginia Woolf Nigel Nicolson's biography of his parents, PORTRAIT OF A MARRIAGE is now a modern classic with over 500,000 copies sold in paperback Author's bestselling track record on all things Bloomsbury Serialisation in national newspaper on hardback publication Nigel Nicolson won the Whitbread Prize for his biography of Mary Curzon

"'As a short introduction to Virginia Woolf this deceptively brief book could hardly be bettered and achieves high status instantly as a significant work of reference in its own right' The Times"

Nigel Nicolson is the son of the politician, diarist and biographer Harold Nicolson, and the poet and writer Vita Sackville-West who restored Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, now a property of the National Trust. The family were close friends with Virginia and Leonard Woolf. Nicolson was the co-founder of Weidenfeld & Nicolson, was a Conservative MP in the 1950s and is the author of fifteen previous books.