The Bolter: The Story of Idina Sackville, Who Ran Away to Become the Chief Seductress of Kenya's Scandalous "Happy Valley Set"

ISBN: 0307476421

Author: Osborne, Frances

Condition: New

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AN O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE #1 TERRIFIC READ In an age of bolters-women who broke the rules and fled their marriages-one woman was the most celebrated of them all. Even today Lady Idina Sackville could get tongues wagging."-NPR"Taylor Swift might count Lady Sackville among her muses. Swifts fans...have linked Idina to The Bolter, a song on the record-breaking album, The Tortured Poets Department"-TatlerIdina Sackville's relentless affairs, wild sex parties, and brazen flaunting of convention shocked high society and inspired countless writers and artists, from Nancy Mitford to Greta Garbo. But Idinas compelling charm masked the pain of betrayal and heartbreak.Now Frances Osborne explores the life of Idina, her enigmatic great-grandmother, using letters, diaries, and family legend, following her from Edwardian London to the hills of Kenya, where she reigned over the scandalous antics of the Happy Valley Set. Dazzlingly chic yet warmly intimate, The Bolter is a fascinating look at a woman whose energy still burns bright almost a century later."Sackvilles passion lights up the page. -Entertainment Weekly "An engaging, definitive final look back at those naughty people who, between the wars, took their bad behavior off to Kenya and whose upper-class delinquency became gilded with unjustified glamour. -Financial Times Intoxicating. -People