Girl from the Fiction Department

Absorbing and provocative, a biography of George Orwell''s controversial second wife from the Whitbread Prize-winning author of Matisse the Master and Anthony Powell

Just three months before his death, the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four took a new wife. Sonia Brownell was model for Julia in Orwell''s most famous novel, she was fifteen years younger than her husband, and after his death she was houn...