6/4/2023 0 Comments Red joan by jennie rooneySonya and Leo, known communist sympathizers with ties to Russia and Germany, interpret wartime loyalty in ways Joan can only begin to fathom.Īs nations throughout the continent fall to fascism, Joan is enlisted into an urgent project that will change the course of the war-and the world-forever. Joan also feels a growing attraction toward Leo, Sonya's mysterious and charismatic cousin. Talented and impressionable, Cambridge undergraduate Joan Stanley befriends the worldly Sonya, whose daring history is at odds with Joan's provincial upbringing. Inspired by the true story of Melita Norwood, a woman unmasked in 1999, at age 87, as the KGB's longest-serving British spy, Red Joan centers on the deeply conflicted life of a brilliant young physicist during the Second World War. Currently being adapted to film starring Oscar-winner Judi Dench and actress Sophie Cookson
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |