The Bolter
Book description
A San Francisco Chronicle 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—Idina Sackville was the most celebrated of them all. Her relentless affairs, wild sex parties, and brazen flaunting of convention shocked…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Bolter as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The Bolter is uniquely sad yet weirdly comforting. Set primarily in the 1930s, it’s a story about a brazen woman named Idina who is shamelessly bold and ahead of her time. With her unladylike behavior, she shocked the upper class when she balked at their traditions and forged her own path. Fascinating and page-turning, Idina lived as if she was a woman of the present day.
Frances Osborne did an incredible job of digging out the details to tell this gossipy story.
From Victoria's list on historical fiction set in the 1930s and 1940s.
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