Sonia Purnell

Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction, intrigue and power

Sonia joins us to discuss the remarkable life of Pamela Harriman. There is practically no-one in twentieth-century politics, culture and fashion whose lives she did not touch. From seducing Americans during World War II at the behest of her father-in-law, Winston Churchill, to plucking Bill Clinton from obscurity and vaulting him to the presidency, her influence knew no bounds.

Sonia Purnell

Biographer

Sonia is the New York Times bestselling biographer, journalist and public speaker whose previous books include A Woman of No Importance about the heroic American one-legged spy Virginia Hall; First Lady: the Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill, and her biography of Boris Johnson, Just Boris: A Tale of Blond Ambition.

'An incredible story, beautifully told, of a remarkable woman whose political influence spanned Churchill to Clinton. Quite a woman, quite a read'

Alastair Campbell

Sonia Purnell

Biographer

Sonia is the New York Times bestselling biographer, journalist and public speaker whose previous books include A Woman of No Importance about the heroic American one-legged spy Virginia Hall; First Lady: the Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill, and her biography of Boris Johnson, Just Boris: A Tale of Blond Ambition.