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Loot Price R310
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You Save R45 (13%)
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They knew they were changing history.
They didn’t know they would change each other.
Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its 1000-year history, the world’s
most famous university has admitted female students. Giddy with dreams
of equality, education and emancipation, four young women move into
neighbouring rooms on Corridor Eight. They have come here from all
walks of life, and they are thrown into an unlikely, life-affirming
friendship.
Dora was never meant to go to university, but, after losing both her
brother and her fiancé on the battlefield, has arrived in their place.
Beatrice, politically-minded daughter of a famous suffragette, sees
Oxford as a chance to make her own way – and her own friends – for the
first time. Socialite Otto fills her room with extravagant luxuries but
fears they won’t be enough to distract her from her memories of the war
years. And quiet, clever, Marianne, the daughter of a village vicar,
arrives bearing a secret she must hide from everyone – even The Eights
– if she is to succeed.
But Oxford’s dreaming spires cast a dark shadow: in 1920, misogyny is
still rife, influenza is still a threat, and the ghosts of the Great
War are still very real indeed. And as the group navigate this
tumultuous moment in time, their friendship will become more important
than ever.
The Eights is a captivating debut novel about sisterhood,
self-determination, courage, and what it means to come of age in a
world that is forever changed.
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