![]() ![]() Dates and places and people have to be matched up until you have the full picture. She operated under so many different codenames that people hadn’t pulled together all the strands of her operations before. 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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