Behind The Mask: The Life Of Vita Sackville-West: Matthew DennisonVita Sackville West: aristocrat, literary celebrity, devoted wife, famous lover of Virginia Woolf, recluse and iconoclast who defied categorisation. Here are all the triumphs and contradictions of Vita's extraordinary life: her lonely childhood at Knole, her affectionate but open' marriage to Harold Nicolson (during which both husband and wife energetically pursued homosexual affairs, Vita most famously with Virginia Woolf), her literary successes and