PERSON: Frances Osborne

Writer

Frances Victoria Osborne (née Howell) is an English author. She has written two biographies and one novel. She was the first wife of George Osborne, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Osborne’s first biography, Lilla’s Feast, tells the story of her great-grandmother’s life and was published by Doubleday in September 2004. Her second biography, The Bolter, told the story of another of her great-grandmothers Idina Sackville, and became an international best-seller. Park Lane, her third book and first novel published in June 2012, was named Bookseller’s Choice by The Bookseller magazine.

Osborne was educated at Windlesham House School, Marlborough College and the University of Oxford and then trained as a barrister, during which period she became friends with the future wife of Ed Miliband, Justine Thornton, with whom she later embarked on a backpacking trip across South America. Osborne worked in law, finance and journalism before becoming a full-time writer.

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