The Bolter by Frances Osbourne

The Bolter by Frances Osbourne

On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know. Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by leaving his multimillionaire father to run off to Africa with a near penniless man. An inspiration for Nancy Mitford's character The Bolter, painted by William Orpen, and photographed by Cecil Beaton, Sackville went on to divorce a total of five times, yet died with a picture of her first love by her bed. Her struggle to reinvent her life with each new marriage left one husband murdered and branded her the 'high priestess' of White Mischief's bed-hopping Happy Valley in Kenya. Sackville's life was so scandalous that it was kept a secret from her great-granddaughter Frances Osborne. Now, Osborne tells the moving tale of betrayal and heartbreak behind Sackville's road to scandal and return, painting a dazzling portrait of high society in the early twentieth century.

** 'Passionate and headstrong, Lady Idina was determined to be free even if the cost was scandal and ruinFrances Osborne has brilliantly captured not only one woman's life but an entire lost society' Amanda Foreman

Born in London in 1969, Frances Osborne worked as a barrister, investment research analyst and journalist before writing her first book, Lilla's Feast. She is married to George Osborne, the Shadow Chancellor.

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ISBN 13	9781844084814
ISBN 10	1844084817
Title	The Bolter
Author	Frances Osbourne
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	2008-05-01
Number of pages	320
Prizes	Short-listed for Galaxy British Book Awards: Richard and Judy's Best Read of the Year 2009
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