It also proved irresistible to Osborne, who, haunted by her great-grandmother's story, tries Sackville's life proved irresistible material for several British novelists, among them Nancy Mitford, who turned her into "the Bolter," the mother of the narrator of a trilogy of novels beginning with The Pursuit of Love. Grandmother, five times married and five times divorced, and the ringleader of a wife-swapping, morphine-addicted English expatriate colony in east Africa in the 1920s, '30s and '40s.īut she was even more scorned in family circles for her desertion of her first husband and her two sons, then 3 and 4 years old. Idina, it turned out, was Osborne's disgraced great. As she and her younger sister pored over a newspaper serialization of an account of a notorious murder in Kenya, her father glanced at her mother and said, "You have to tell her."
Biographer Frances Osborne was 13 when she first heard about the scandalous Idina Sackville.
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