Orwell Calling

<p><strong>Orwell Calling - a debut novel by Peter Hodgkinson</strong></p><p><br></p><p>In August 1941 George Orwell stopped writing his wartime diary and only resumed in March 1942. What might have happened in those six months? </p><p><br></p><p>Working for the BBC as a radio producer in the India Section of the Eastern Service</p><p>Orwell was employed to produce British propaganda to subvert the growing demand for India's Independence.</p><p><br></p><p>He learns of Churchill's plan to partition India and meets Guy Burgess later one of the Cambridge spies who was also working at the BBC. </p><p><br></p><p>London was experiencing a welcome lull in the Blitz but the streets were still full of hidden dangers. One of Orwell's young Indian assistants goes missing.</p><p><br></p><p>Inspector Charles Percy of Scotland Yard suspects Orwell is involved in her disappearance.</p><p><br></p><p>It was during this period that Orwell developed many of the ideas and themes that were later to be found in his famous novel 1984.</p><p><br></p>