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10 Terrific Reads of 2009

O, The Oprah Magazine | From the December 2009 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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The books that gave us comfort, joy—and lots to talk about.

The Bolter
By Frances Osborne
320 pages; Knopf

The Bolter chronicles the life of Idina Sackville, a wellborn British woman who defied convention by having "lovers without number" and choosing a decadent expat life in Kenya in 1918. Was Sackville a protofeminist free spirit à la Isak Dinesen or a spoiled rich girl who couldn't resist a scandal? Author Frances Osborne—Sackville's great-granddaughter—traces her ancestor's journey from madcap to just plain mad.

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