Red Joan by Jennie Rooney
Post Date: July 9, 2013
Rooney’s thought-provoking third novel is loosely based on the true story of Melita Norwood, the 87-year-old (nicknamed ‘The Spy who came in from the Co-op’!), arrested in England in 1999 after spying for the Russians for four decades. Unlike Norwood, protagonist Joan Stanley, was never a committed communist, and the story provides a credible[…]