Books By Sonia Purnell - Author

Sonia Purnell is a prize-winning and bestselling biographer hailed as having 'the eye of an historian for rigour, a journalist's for detail and a storyteller's for drama (Financial Times). Her latest work Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction, power & intrigue, was published to huge media acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic and described as 'revelatory ... rollicking ... rigorous ... riveting'. Purnell is interested in setting the record straight on twentieth-century women whose lives have been overlooked, misrepresented or misunderstood by history, works that led to her recently being described as 'one of the most accomplished biographers of our time' (Liza Mundy). Her work on Virginia Hall, A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII's Most Dangerous Spy, won the 2020 Plutarch Award for Best Biography and was a New York Times bestseller. Her book First Lady: The Life and Wars of Cleme