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8 de may. de 2024 · Frances Osborne is the author of three books, all published in the UK and US. Her first biography, Lilla's Feast (2004), has been translated into six languages and is a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book. Her second biography, The Bolter (2008), was shortlisted for Best Read in Britain, was a Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller and one of The San Francisco Chronicle's Best Books of the Year.
The Guardian (London) 'Frances Osborne's Park Lane, a gripping story about two young women, one a housemaid, on the youngest daughter of the house, captures brilliantly how the outbreak of war and the changing attitudes towards women affected social relationships.'. The Bookseller. Top ten read of 2012: ‘A feisty novel about militant ...
Frances Osborne was born in London and studied philosophy and modern languages at Oxford University. She is the author of Lilla’s Feast and The Bolter. Her articles have appeared in The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Independent, the Daily Mail, and Vogue. She lives in London.
She was irresistible. She inspired fiction, fantasy, legend, and art. Some say she was “the Bolter” of Nancy Mitford’s novelThe Pursuit of Love.She “played” Iris Storm in Michael Arlen’s celebrated novel about fashionable London’s lost generation,The Green Hat, and Greta Garbo played her inA Woman of Affairs,the movie made from Arlen’s book.
4 de may. de 2010 · Frances Osborne brings the decadence of Britain’s dying aristocracy vividly to life in this story of scandal and heartbreak.”—Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Young Stalin and Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar “Sex, money, glamour, and scandal make Idina Sackville’s story hard to put down.
7 de jun. de 2012 · Park Lane by Frances Osborne – review. Julie Burchill is left feeling somewhat grubby by a clumsy period saga. Julie Burchill. Thu 7 Jun 2012 06.00 EDT. T here are worse things a politician's ...
Frances Osborne is the author of three books, all published in the UK and US. Her first biography, Lilla's Feast (2004), has been translated into six languages and is a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book. Her second biography, The Bolter (2008), was shortlisted for Best Read in Britain, was a Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller and one of The San Francisco Chronicle's Best Books of the Year.
