num_pages: 208
description: Sonia Orwell, widow of George Orwell, was blamed for exploiting his name and squandering his fortune after he died. Here, Hilary Spurling shows that she was in fact a heroic woman who devoted much of her life to righting wrongs.
language: English
title: The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell
titlecomplete: The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell
characters: Sonia Orwell, George Orwell, Cyril Connolly
genres: History, Biography, Biography Memoir, Nonfiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 97
publisher: Counterpoint