by Frances Osborne · Virago · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781844084807
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«The Bolter» is the biography of aristocrat Idina Sackville written by Frances Osborne, published by Virago in paperback (336 pages, in English).
The work reconstructs the life of Idina Sackville, a woman of British high society who scandalized her circle in the 1920s by leaving her husband and fleeing to Kenya with a man of no fortune. She inspired the character of «The Bolter» by Nancy Mitford and ended up linked to the White Mischief scandal in Kenya's Happy Valley.
The book's subtitle is «Idina Sackville: the woman who scandalised 1920s society and became White Mischief's infamous seductress». The book was published on December 29, 2008.
For readers of historical biographies, interested in British high society between the wars and the colonial atmosphere of Kenya.
