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THE BOLTER Idina Sackville - The Woman Who Scandalised 1920s Society and Became White Mischief's Infamous Seductress
by FRANCES OSBORNE Książka używana, w języku angielskim
Stan książki: bdb, zawiera zdjęcia
Oprawa: miękka
Ilość stron: 322
Rok wydania: 2009 Amanda Foreman
'Passionate and headstrong, Lady Idina was determined to be free even if the cost was scandal and ruin. Frances Osborne has brilliantly captured not only one woman's life but an entire lost society'
Marianne Brace, Independent
'Osborne is an imaginative scene painter... Idina wasn't admirable, but Osborne makes us sympathise with her.'
Alexandra Fuller, Financial Times
'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.'
Easy Living
'A bewitching character brilliantly painted'
Kayt Turner, Scotland on Sunday
'Osborne has had, as you would expect a family member, unprecedented access to Sackville's diaries - and those of most of her husbands.'
Marie Claire
'Osborne unearthed the moving truth behind the headlines. It's a melancholy, vivid portrait of a lost lady and her troubled world'
Robert McCrum, Observer
'Osborne paints an enthralling portrait of upper-class English life just before, during and immediately after the Great War.'
Good Housekeeping
'Capturing the fragile times in which Idina lived, The Bolter is a biographical treat.'
Julian Fellowes, Daily Mail
'Osborne tells this tragic-comedy of the Jazz Age with wit and style . . . an enthralling account of a dazzling, troubled life.'
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. 
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