Mrs Orwell

✍ Scribed by Cox, Tony;

• Book ID: 111816809
• Publisher: Oberon Books
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 98 KB
• Series: Oberon Modern Plays
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781786822666

✦ Synopsis

"So what you want, in a nutshell, George, is a mistress, housekeeper, nurse, literary executor and mother for Richard?" University College hospital, London, 1949. George Orwell is in the last chapter of his life with a severe case of Tuberculosis. He still believes he has at least three novels in him so to keep his morale up he promptly proposes to friend Sonia Brownell, a 30 year old assistant magazine editor. When Sonia learns that she is his only hope, she must decide whether to succumb to the advances of Lucien Freud or enter a platonic marriage with one of the countries most renowned writers.