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Sunday Times serial for Vanessa Nicolson
28 Apr 2015

Vanessa Nicolson’s powerful family memoir Have You Been Good? was serialised this weekend in the Sunday Times.

Vanessa Nicolson, the grand-daughter of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, had an exotic upbringing in Florence, and raised her daughters in Sissinghurst. In this extract from her searing family memoir, she writes about her daughter Rosa, who died in 2008, aged just 19

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Vanessa Nicolson

Vanessa Nicolson

Vanessa Nicolson was brought up in Florence and London, and graduated from Sussex University in Art History and Italian in 1979. She began her career at the Tate Gallery and has since worked as a feature writer, reviewer, curator and film programmer as well as an interviewer for the British Libra...More about Vanessa Nicolson

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