A fascinating account from award-winning author Adam Nicolson on
the history of Nicolson's own national treasure, his family home:
Sissinghurst.
Sissinghurst is world famous as a place of calm and beauty, a
garden slipped into the ruins of a rose-pink Elizabethan palace.
But is it entirely what its creators intended? Has its success over
the last thirty years come at a price? Is Sissinghurst everything
it could be? The story of this piece of land, an estate in the
Weald of Kent, is told here for the first time from the very
beginning. Adam Nicolson, who now lives there, has uncovered
remarkable new findings about its history as a medieval manor and
great sixteenth-century house, from the days of its decline as an
eighteenth-century prison to a flourishing Victorian farm and on to
the creation, by his grandparents Vita Sackville-West and Harold
Nicolson, of a garden in a weed-strewn wreck. Alongside his
recovery of the past, Adam Nicolson wanted something else: for the
land at Sissinghurst to live again, to become the landscape of
orchards, cattle, fruit and sheep he remembered from his
boyhood.Could that living frame of a mixed farm be brought back to
what had turned into monochrome fields of chemicalised wheat and
oilseed rape? Against the odds, he was going to try. Adam Nicolson
has always been a passionate writer about landscape and buildings,
but this is different. This is the place he wanted to make good
again, reconnecting garden, farm and land. More than just a
personal biography of a place, this book is the story of taking an
inheritance and steering it in a new direction, just as an
entrepreneur might take hold of a company, or just as all of us
might want to take our dreams and make them real.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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