The Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak and High Society Scandal in Kenya

The Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak and High Society Scandal in Kenya

On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know. Fifteen years earlier, as the First World …

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