

A novel about the suffragette movement in the UK told through the eyes of the well-off Evelyn who wants to go to Oxford, pacifist May who holds tight to principles (sometimes at the expense of those she loves) and Nell, a girl who dresses as a boy from hardscrabble Poplar.
We have hunger strikes, violence, WWI, a lesbian relationship and bright girls trying to figure out what they can do in spite of what the world may tell them.
Bittersweet.