lola425 's review for:

The Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak and High Society Scandal in Kenya by Frances Osborne

3.0

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I love a good true-life tale of women who refuse to conform to the bahvior that society expects of them. Edwardian society was kooky anyway. So Idina could have as many affairs as she liked so long as they conformed to certain criteria, but remove one or all of those criteria and she was out? Not cool. At first I couldn't imagine how she could leave her children, but if you consider that a) in her society she really had no other options except leave them or stay in a marriage that didn't satisfy her and b) child raising among her circle was not exactly a "hands-on" activity, I came to understand why she might have done what she did.

Very interesting reading.