A Woman of No Importance | Sonia Purnell | Talks at Google

Sonia Purnell is a journalist and bestselling author known for her lively writing style and meticulous research with a growing readership across the world. Her first book - the unauthorized biography of Boris Johnson called - was long listed for the Orwell prize, and her second book revealed for the first time the vital role played in Winston Churchill's career by his wife Clementine.

In this talk, she discusses her new work, "A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of WWII’s Most Dangerous Spy, Virginia Hall". It is the astonishing but true-life tale of a female spy in World War II, Virginia Hall, a young American socialite with a wooden leg, who helped fan the flames of French Resistance. The rights have already been sold for a major film starring Daisy Ridley.

Get the book here: https://goo.gle/2Jv9uT7