Worrals

Flight Officer Joan Worralson, better known as "Worrals", is a fictional character created by W. E. Johns, more famous for his series of books about Biggles.

Worrals was a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) in the Second World War. She has a sidekick called Betty "Frecks" Lovell.

Johns modelled Worrals on two female aviators of his acquaintance, Amy Johnson—whom he knew as "Johnnie" Mollison, from which Worrals' name is presumed to derive—and Pauline Gower.

Novels

The first six books were written and set during the Second World War; the remainder mainly in places remote or exotic to European readers. The Worrals series was very successful in the UK (published by the Lutterworth Press) and France (Presse de la Cite) and translated into several other languages. Most titles included line illustrations by the British artist Leslie Stead. The first three Worrals books were republished in 2013 by IndieBooks with new illustrations by US graphic novelist Matt Kindt.