Original gardening columns by Vita Sackville-West, as first published in the Observer newspaper, copyright © The Beneficiaries of Vita Sackville-West 2014

Selection and new material copyright © Sarah Raven 2014

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ISBN 978-1-250-06005-1

First published in Great Britain in 2014 by Virago Press, an imprint of Little Brown Book Group, an Hachette UK Company, as Vita Sackville-West’s Sissinghurst: The Creation of a Garden.

First U.S. Edition: November 2014

eISBN 9781466865983

First eBook edition: August 2014