Vanessa Nicolson is the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. Her first memoir, Have You Been Good?, was published by Granta in 2015. Her second memoir, The Truth Game, was published by Quartet in 2017. She grew up in London and Florence and has worked as an art historian and journalist. She lives in Sissinghurst, Kent.
A recent interview with the author can be found here https://monocle.com/radio/shows/meet-the-writers/108/