A real-life fairy tale with a brilliant, larger-than-life heroine. Sonia Orwell was a woman of great beauty, power and presence. She married George Orwell three months before he died, becoming his sole heir and literary executor. Since then shehas been blamed for exploiting his name and squandering his fortune, but Hilary Spurling argues that this is a travesty of the truth based on misconception and ignorance. Aiming to set the record straight, she shows that Sonia Orwell was in fact a heroic woman who devoted much of her life to righting wrongs.
- ISBN10 0241141656
- ISBN13 9780241141656
- Publish Date 30 May 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 April 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Hamish Hamilton Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English