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Robert mccrum, observer osborne is a graceful writer, excellent at evoking the atmosphere of london during the first world war and happy valley in the twenties. Some say she was the bolter of nancy mitfords novel the pursuit of love. The bolter by frances osborne is in the richard and judy shortlist 2009. It is in its evocation of these seismic years that frances osbornes book becomes truly interesting. Read information about the author frances osborne was born in london and studied philosophy and modern languages at oxford university.