The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell

The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell

by HilarySpurling (Author)

Synopsis

Sonia Orwell was a woman of great beauty, power and presence who married George Orwell three months before he died. She became his sole heir and literary executor and has been blamed for exploiting his name and copyrights, and squandering his fortune. Hilary Spurling argues that this is a travesty of the truth based on misconception, distortion and ignorance, and argues that Sonia Orwell was, in fact, a heroic woman who devoted much of her life to righting wrongs. This is a real-life fairy-tale with a brilliant, larger-than-life heroine.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Published: 30 May 2002

ISBN 10: 0241141656
ISBN 13: 9780241141656

Author Bio
Hilary Spurling is a prize-winning and hugely acclaimed biographer whose books include The Unknown Matisse.