Book description
'Entertaining and moving...I came to love these four women as though they were my sisters' TRACY CHEVALIER
'I ADORED it. What a fantastic read. My book of the year' JILL MANSELL
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They knew they were changing history.
They didn't know they would change each other.
Oxford, 1920. For the…
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The year that women were first allowed to earn degrees at Oxford coincided with a time in which the Great War had swallowed many of the men who might have been their husbands. A life of the mind begins to seem a possible choice. Anyone who loved Dorothy Sayers' "Gaudy Night" will love this.
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