Things a Bright Girl Can Do

About 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 Liverpool with her husband and two sons.

Summary

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?

Foreword

Following three courageous young women as they join the fight for women's votes, Things a Bright Girl Can Do is Sally Nicholls' dazzling return to YA fiction

Product details

• Authors: Sally Nicholls, Nicholls Sally
• Publisher: Random House Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 12 to 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.09.2017
• EAN: 9781783446377
• ISBN: 978-1-78344-637-7
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Subjects: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Violence, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Politics & Government, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Girls & Women, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Historical / Europe, Romance & relationships stories (Children's / Teenage), Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, c 1910 to c 1919, Relating to lesbians, Interest age: from c 13 years, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / LGBTQ+ / General