Challenge Author:Vita Sackville-West A Censored Classic — In a novel that mirrors the scandalous events surrounding her own illicit affair with Violet Keppel -- the childhood friend for whose sake she was prepared to outrage convention by abandoning her husband Harold Nicolson, her family, and all that England meant to her -- Vita Sackville-West has written a superbly romantic sotry... more » of a young Byronic Englishman and the woman he loved.
CHALLENGE is a timeless declaration of love and moving expression of the rebelliousness of the soul. But the truths it told caused it to be suppressed for many years in the author's own country. In the Forward, Nigel Nicolson, son of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West, says: "Seldom can a novelist have expressed so clearly, in the differing characters of her hero and heroine, her conception of the capacity of the human spirit."« less