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shahrun 's review for:
The Bolter
by Frances Osborne
This is the second time I have read this book, getting on for ten years between reads. I absolutely loved it first time round, I found it very glamorous and exciting. Whilst I did enjoy the re-read, I now have a lot more life experience and viewed what I read with completely different eyes. It gave me much to think about, rather than just being swept away. The Author had hero worship for her ancestor Idina. Perhaps I did too when I first came across this book. It’s a very seductive world. I bet it would have been very interesting to have a drink and chat with Idina. I think she (the family?) blames Ewan completely for all that went wrong with the marriage and subsequent events. Now that I am older, it just pisses me off that the incestuous, bed hoping aristocracy get to live by their own rules and to hell with anyone else. The causal way they palm their kids off, to be raised by others is probably why they are so rampant in extramarital affairs. It must interfere with their ability to bond with a loved one and have them looking for love in all the wrong places? And it surprised me they haven’t died out with STIs hahaha. Then right at the very end, the afterword gives a new perspective on the woman who lived life her own way.