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Sally Nicholls - Things A Bright Girl Can Do (2nd Hand Hardback)
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Synopsis
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2019, National Book Award, Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards and the YA Book Prize.
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.
Evelyn is seventeen, and though she is rich and clever, she may never be allowed to follow her older brother to university. 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.
May is fifteen, and already sworn to the cause, though she and her fellow Suffragists refuse violence. When she meets Nell, a girl who's grown up in hardship, she sees a kindred spirit. Together and in love, the two girls start to dream of a world where all kinds of women have their place.
But the fight for freedom will challenge Evelyn, May and Nell more than they ever could believe. As war looms, just how much are they willing to sacrifice?
Details
- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Hardback with Dust Jacket
- Condition : Very Good (Almost As New)
- Category : Fiction - Young Adult Fiction
- Published : 2017 (Andersen Press - 1st Edition, 1st Printing)
- ISBN : 9781783445257
- SKU : B003111
- PPC : SP500gm
- RRP : £12.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
"Nicholls has brought alive the young women of the past to empower the next generation" - Alex O'Connell - The Times, Children's Book of the Week.
"Each voice is distinct, resonant and authentic . . . uniquely special" - Imogen Russell Williams - Guardian.
"Romantic and inspiring" - Nicolette Jones - Sunday Times, Best Books of 2017.
"Inspiring and infuriating in equal measures, Things A Bright Girl Can Do is an utterly captivating novel. Sally Nicholls deftly weaves history and politics into the narrative with such a lightness of touch, it was impossible to stop reading. Immensely enjoyable" - Louise O'Neill.
"Fantastic. Conveys all the intricacies of the political and social situation in a way that's vivid, hard-hitting, funny and emotionally compelling. It feels like we're living it, rather than just learning about it." - Frances Hardinge.
"Timely, informative and hugely enjoyable . . . the book excels at what fiction is best at: inviting empathy and understanding for others" - Irish Times.
"Things A Bright Girl Can Do is relevant for every generation" - Evening Standard.
"A richly textured novel" - Geraldine Brennan, Observer, Best books of 2017.
"A chocolate box of a novel . . . books such as this are all the more to be prized" - The Telegraph.
"A perfect balm to a frustrating world" - Buzzfeed.
"Another really interesting novel from Sally Nicholls, this time about the suffragette movement in the UK and the First World War. Don't be put off by the cover - the novel is much better than that! Also the rather misleading title - it is taken from a real book of the time called patronisingly "Things a Girl can do" which presumably didn't even dream of all the things that women really can do, like voting, running a business, becoming First Minister of Scotland or Prime Minister of The UK . . . As usual Sally Nicholls is excellent at getting under the skin of all her varied characters and making the reader anxious to find out what happens to them. There is a wide mixture of people across the classes, from the very poor to the prosperous middle class, which the writer handles skilfully." - Google Review.
The Author
Sally Nicholls grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, and after school, travelled the world, working for a period at a Red Cross hospital in Japan. Sally's first novel, Ways to Live Forever, won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and she has been shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Costa Children's Book Award, and the Carnegie Medal, twice. She lives in Oxford.