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'Should be compulsory reading' - "The Times". George Orwell's second wife was portrayed by many of her husband's biographers as a manipulative gold-digger who would stop at nothing to keep control of his legacy. But the truth about Sonia Orwell - the model for Julia in nineteen eighty-four - was altogether different. Beautiful, intelligent and fiercely idealistic, she lived at the heart of London's literary and artistic scene before her marriage to Orwell changed her life for ever. Burdened with the almost impossible task of protecting Orwell's estate, Sonia's loyalty to her late husband brought her nothing but poverty and despair.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Girl from the Fiction Department
• Author: Hilary Spurling
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9780141008172
• ISBN: 0141008172
• ID: 04025171
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 162 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 127 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. June 2003

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