Sonia Purnell Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life

Pamela Churchill Harriman was written off as a social climber, but her glamorous social life and infamous erotic adventures overshadowed her true legacy. The award -winning biographer exposes the truth of the woman who, behind the scenes, did much to shape the twentieth century, on both sides of the Atlantic: from her father-in-law Winston Churchill using her as a ‘secret weapon’ during WW2 to influencing figures including the Kennedys, Nelson Mandela, Truman Capote, and Frank Sinatra. Sonia Purnell’s biography of Virginia Hall, WWII’s Most Dangerous Spy, won the Plutarch Award for Best Biography and was a New York Times bestseller.

Talking to Julia Wheeler