The Eights by Joanna Miller

This is a luminous novel about some of the first women allowed to receive degrees at Oxford. They face misogyny,  disease and the dark shadow of the war as well as their own secrets and struggles but their close friendship and their courage and resilience sees them triumph in this beautiful city of ‘dreaming spires’. It’s a fine addition to a long list of university novels.

Heartbroken Dora yearns for her fiancee who was killed in the war. Flirtatious and beautiful, Otto, born with a silver spoon in her mouth, longs for luxury. Beatrice lacks confidence, partly because she can never live up to her suffragette mother, and Marianne hides a secret.

Beautifully written with some interesting real characters and snippets of history, this is a keeper!

I received this free ebook from NetGalley in return for a free ebook.