Sir Neville Pearson

She apparently had a friendly, teasing relationship while journeying with Ahmed Hassanein , who went with her to Kufra but who was not, it seems, the creative mind behind the journey. Magazine publisher Sir Neville Pearson

This launched a period as a celebrity, lecturing and receiving acclaim for her adventures. According to her obituary she was the heroine of the hour, summoned by the king for a personal account of her...

By 1922, after a brief spell in an engineering firm, she was working as a secretary at Pearson and Newnes publishing firm, a job she kept for thirty years. She never considered changing jobs...

This highly unusual novel takes the form of a disconnected journal by a publisher's secretary named Pompey, an alienated but irrepressible member of the disregarded female work-force, who is clearly an alter-ego for SS ...