![]() ![]() When she meets Nell, a girl who's grown up in hardship, she sees a kindred spirit. ![]() May is fifteen, and already sworn to the cause, though she and her fellow Suffragists refuse violence. Enraged that she is expected to marry her childhood sweetheart rather than be educated, she joins the Suffragettes, and vows to pay the ultimate price for women's freedom. Through rallies and marches, in polite drawing rooms and freezing prison cells and the poverty-stricken slums of the East End, three courageous young women join the fight for the vote.Įvelyn is seventeen, and though she is rich and clever, she may never be allowed to follow her older brother to university. Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2019, National Book Award, Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards and the YA Book Prize ![]()
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