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  • Published: 28 January 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241974612
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208
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The Girl from the Fiction Department

A Portrait of Sonia Orwell



  • Published: 28 January 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241974612
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208
Categories:

About the author

Hilary Spurling

Hilary Spurling won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884-1919, and the Duff Cooper Prize and Heinemann Award for Secrets of a Woman's Heart: The Later Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1920-1969. She is also the author of Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book, Paper Spirits and The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell. She has been Arts and Literary Editor of the Spectator, and a regular reviewer for the Observer, the New York Times and the Daily Telegraph.

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