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Item Details
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THE BOLTER
IDINA SACKVILLE - THE WOMAN WHO SCANDALISED 1920S SOCIETY AND BECAME WHITE MISCHIEF'S INFAMOUS SEDUCTRESS |
| By: |
Frances Osborne |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£9.98 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0748111476 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780748111473 |
| Publisher: |
LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP |
| Pub. date: |
5 February, 2009 |
| Pages: |
320 |
| 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 ye |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
16pp illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Virago Press Ltd |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for Spear's Book Awards: Biography of the Year 2009
Short-listed for Galaxy British Book Awards: Richard and Judy's Best Read |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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