NOREEN'S SPECIAL JOURNEY FOR A WOMAN OF COURAGE AWARD

Our Society of Women Writers and Journalist is proud of so many of our members both in the UK and overseas.  Just recently, at the age of ninety-six, one of our long-standing  members, Noreen Riols who lives in Marley-le-Roi, France made a rather special journey from her seventeenth-century home, with family members to the British Embassy in Paris.  Here she met the British Ambassador to receive an MBE for her work as a former member of Churchill's 'Secret Army' who spent the war working for the Special Operations executive, created to conduct espionage and sabotage operations. 

Our super friend Noreen - who is British - has lived in France with her husband and family for more than seventy years and has written her life story within her book The Secret Ministry of Ag. & Fish.

We rarely had the opportunity of meeting Noreen, except on special occasions, and one of these was our SWWJ Weekend School in London in 2001 where we are pictured with our friends Lynda Lee-Potter and Jennie Lisney.