Frances Osborne worked as a barrister, a banker and then a journalist before becoming a full-time writer. She lives in London and Cheshire with her husband and two young children. This is her first book.
Passionately written and compelling, Frances Osborne's impressive debut is a wonderful read. The extraordinary life of this ordinary woman is a tumultuous feast of the senses -- Santa Montefiore Lilla's Feast is a wonderful, inspiring book, part page-turner, part history of the British Empire in the Far East, Frances Osborne perfectly captures the stories of a lost generation of women -- Amanda Foreman Osborne tells the story of her great-granny's life with page-turning brio * Sunday Telegraph * A wonderfully evocative, vivid, distilled book * Tatler * Powerfully imagined... Aromas of the spicy dishes Lilla learned to cook during her years in the Far East seem to cling to these pages, infusing the narrative with exoticism * The Times * A rapturous fusion of personal history and tales of Empire and the Far East * You Magazine * An intriguing memoir * Woman and Home * Osborne brings alive the world of her great-grandmother... dazzling and inspiring * USA Today * A rapturous fusion of personal history and tales of Empire * Mail on Sunday *