Rebecca Hughes Hall worked as an editor before publishing book Animals Are Equal, documenting extraordinary communication between humans and other species. Her involvement with animal rights (founding Writers for the Abolition of Vivisection) informed Voiceless Victims, a ground-breaking study of animal abuse and maltreatment in the name of science. She published further non-fiction before writing the screenplay of the Klaus Mann novel The Volcano, about artists and writers fleeing Nazi Germany, winning a prize at the Montreal Film Festival. She also wrote a play for BBC Television and a stage play: a true story about a young servant girl in Regency-era Wales unjustly accused infanticide and hanged. Rebecca’s abiding interest in WW2 led to her adapting for R4 Paul Gallico’s The Lonely, a love story about an American fighter pilot. Her latest work, Frances and her Ghosts, a semi-autobiographical novel, set in ‘80s Britain and ‘30s Germany, was completed just before she was diagnosed with dementia and Parkinson’s. A double tragedy for such an articulate writer.