Praise for Frances Osborne’s The Bolter

“For those who can’t ever get enough of the frolics and affairs of the British upper class in the ’20s and ’30s, this is the book for you.… Brilliant and utterly divine.… It’s a breath of fresh air from a vanished world.”

—Michael Korda, The Daily Beast

“Wonderfully engaging.… [It] combines the tingling immediacy of the best kind of history with the stay-up-till-3-a.m.-to-finish-it urgency of a bestseller.”

—Allison Pearson, Daily Mail

“Intoxicating.”

—People

“Idina Sackville … could have stepped out of an Evelyn Waugh satire about the bright young things who partied away their days in the ’20s and ’30s, and later crashed and burned.… Frances Osborne … conjure[s] a vanished world with novelistic detail and flair.”

—The New York Times

“Beautifully written … it catches a social group and the madcap lives they led—so luxurious, so wasted.… Superb.”

—Barbara Goldsmith, author of
Obsessive Genius and Little Gloria … Happy at Last

“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.”

—Amanda Foreman, author of

Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire

“Engaging.… A revealing portrait of a remarkable woman.… Ms. Osborne has succeeded in her stated aim, to write a book that ‘has in a way brought Idina back to life.’ And what a life it was.”

—The Wall Street Journal