Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls

Together and in love, the two girls start to dream of a world where all kinds of women have their place.īut the fight for freedom will challenge Evelyn, May and Nell more than they ever could believe. Evelyn is seventeen, and though she is rich and. When she meets Nell, a girl who's grown up in hardship, she sees a kindred spirit. 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. May is fifteen, and already sworn to the cause, though she and her fellow Suffragists refuse violence. This angers Evelyn, so she decides to join the suffragette movement with her friend Teddy, to campaign for equal rights for women.

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. By Sally Nicholls Evelyn desperately wants to go to Oxford to study, but her mother wont let her, saying its not the done thing for a woman. 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.Įvelyn is seventeen, and though she is rich and clever, she may never be allowed to follow her older brother to university. Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2019, National Book Award, Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards and the YA Book Prize

Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls