The Bolter: Idina Sackville, the Woman Who Scandalised 1920’s Society and Became White Mischief’s Infamous Seductress
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On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-ancient woman walked into the lobby of Claridge’s Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-ancient son whose face she did not know. Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War finished, 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 like by her bed. Her struggle to reinvent her life with each new marriage left one spouse murdered and branded her the ‘high priestess’ of White Mischief’s bed-hopping Pleased Valley in Kenya. Sackville’s life was so scandalous that it was kept a secret from her fantastic-granddaughter Frances Osborne. Now, Osborne tells the moving tale of treachery 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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I first encountered the “Bolter” in the VHS, “White Mischief”; there she was; full frontal nudity, what a woman! I was in like. But she wasn’t known by that name until I met her again in the DVD, “Like in a Cold Climate”. No more full frontal nudity but rather a worn down looking trollop with some rather excellent advice for her daughter, like “don’t do it”. Her daughter in that movie was a very sweet young woman and now along comes the Bolter’s real-life grand daughter and writes this tell-all book about her grand mere, “The Bolter”. I had to have it, I have it and will keep it and re-read it until I know all there is to know about women. (I can nearly hear your laughter). The “Bolter” lived in an appealing period of England’s history and was part of the “pleased valley” crowd. If this last bit of knowledge doesn’t prompt you to order this woman’s appealing life tale, then you just don’t really have a decent appreciation of glorious, ancient-fashioned, dissipation. Male readers will want to keep a closer eye on what their wives are up to, too much “bolting” in the suburbs as it is!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
too much family tree history it first 100 pages. could have been condensed. it becomes appealing around pages 108 and book two. this is when Idina comes alive.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I saw the leader discussing this on tv. She insisted it reads like a novel. I don’t agree with that assesment, but it is historically appealing.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
I thought I would delight in this book because at least the beginning of it addresses an era that interests me, the Victorian and Edwardian years in England, and WWI. I loved the first hundred pages, but after that the book started to drag. Too many details and not enough emotion. Even the deaths in WWI failed to go me as they usually do. The people described were really unlikeable. I got bored and quit at page 146. I just didn’t need to read my way through “and then she did this and then she did that.”
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Made excellent reading and gave insights into life in the colonies. Describes a very complex personality and her tragic search for like and happiness.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5