In this Sunday’s Book Review, Toni Bentley reviews the biographer Michael Holroyd’s latest book, “A Book of Secrets,” which revisits the story of Vita Sackville-West and Violet Keppel, but “with more depth and context than anyone has before.”Ms. Bentley writes:
From the first page “A Book of Secrets” casts the spell of a time long gone, of loves endured and lost, expectations dashed on the rocks of reality, of inner desires forever stilled, casting their shadows into history. It is written with the kind of elegance, ease and simplicity possible only from a master craftsman who has flown far beyond any learning curve and is relishing his free fall.
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