Divorced five times, Idina Sackville was a society beauty and a seductress. She embraced notoriety when she abandoned a millionaire husband and young sons and departed for the hedonistic world of Kenya's Happy Valley. She also became the model for the character known as "The Bolter" in three of Nancy Mitford's novels. When author Frances Osborne discovered that Idina Sackville was her great grandmother, she set out on a quest to find out more. She joins Jane to talk about how she discovered the searing tragedy behind the glamour of Idina's life.
The Bolter by Frances Osbourne is published in Virago Hardback ISBN-10: 1844084817
