Review:
'A bewitching character brilliantly painted' -- Easy Living
'An engaging book and a definitive final look back at those naughty people who, between the wars, took their bad behaviour off to Kenya and whose upper-class delinquency became gilded with unjustified glamour.' -- Alexandra Fuller, Financial Times
'Capturing the fragile times in which Idina lived, The Bolter is a biographical treat.' -- Good Housekeeping
'Osborne has had, as you would expect a family member, unprecedented access to Sackville's diaries - and those of most of her husbands.'
-- Kayt Turner, Scotland on Sunday
'Osborne has written an enthralling account of a dazzling troubled life.' -- Julian Fellowes, Daily Mail
'Osborne is an imaginative scene painter... Idina wasn't admirable, but Osborne makes us sympathise with her.' -- Marianne Brace, Independent
'Osborne paints an enthralling portrait of upper-class English life just before, during and immediately after the Great War.' -- Robert McCrum, Observer
'Osborne tells this tragic-comedy of the Jazz Age with wit and style . . . an enthralling account of a dazzling, troubled life.' -- Julian Fellowes, Daily Mail
'Osborne unearthed the moving truth behind the headlines. It's a melancholy, vivid portrait of a lost lady and her troubled world' -- Marie Claire
Book Description:
* 'This is a truly astonishing book. Frances Osborne has not just brought to life a dizzyingly rich and scandalous slice of social history, she has produced a tragic and deeply moving tale as well. It is far more gripping than any novel I have read for years' Antony Beevor
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