![]() ![]() So many files, papers and documents have been lost, destroyed or misfiled that tracking Virginia’s story required a lot of detective work over three years with barely a day off. What was it like researching Virginia’s story, which had never been told in full before? It was almost as if she was a fictional, futuristic Virginia. I knew about her disability of course, but while deciding whether to write the book I took my teenage sons to see Mad Max: Fury Road (not my typical choice of movie) and was immediately gripped by the female hero who has lost her forearm. And my hunch proved correct a hundredfold. This seems to be a theme with those who made a difference and when I stumbled across Virginia I had a feeling that there was more than met the eye. But he was reluctant to speak of what he did. ![]() The Second World War is a period of history that has always drawn me in, perhaps because my late father fought in the war. How did you come to write about Virginia Hall – an incredible but unsung hero of the Second World War? Q&A with Sonia Purnell, author of A Woman of No Importance 1. ![]()
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