Red Joan
By: Jennie Rooney
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Published: 2013
Place of publication: [Toronto]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780385680042
Subjects: Fiction; Women spies; Secrecy; Cold War; Great Britain. MI5; Great Britain; Soviet Union
Description: Joan Stanley has a secret. For 50 years she has been a loving mother, a doting grandmother and an occasional visitor to ballroom dancing and watercolour classes. Then one sunlit spring morning there is a knock on the door. [Based on the real life story of Melita Norwood, an eighty seven year old woman who was unmasked as the KGB's longest serving British spy in 1999.].