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3 de may. de 2008 · by Frances Osborne. Virago £18.99, pp320. At heart, The Bolter is a work of family exorcism by the great-granddaughter of a scandalous Edwardian woman, Idina Sackville. Like all such family ...
10 de sept. de 2009 · Ms. Osborne tells us that the Scottish home Idina helped design for herself and her first husband, Euan, had five wings and 65 rooms on the ground and first floors alone, with dozens of nursery ...
The Bolter by Frances Osborne. The Bolter: Idina Sackville – the woman who scandalised 1920’s society and became White Mischief’s infamous seductress. On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge’s Hotel in London’s Mayfair to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know.
The day I am due to meet Frances Osborne, the papers are full of the gloomy news that the UK has gone into a double-dip recession and consequently the Chancellor, her husband, is getting something of
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Frances Osborne deftly tells the tale of her great-grandmother using Idina s never-before-seen letters; the diaries of Idina s first husband, Euan Wallace; and stories from family members. Osborne follows Idina from the champagne breakfasts and thé dansants of lost-generation England to the foothills of Kenya s Aberdare moutnains and the wild abandon of her role in Kenya s disintegration ...
30 de jun. de 2009 · By Frances Osborne. Illustrated. 300 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $30. Dominique Browning’s new book, “Slow Love,” a memoir, will be published next spring. Share full article. Explore More in Books
