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The Eights
by Joanna Miller
This novel tells us the story of eight of the first cohort of women to be formally enrolled in Oxford University to do a degree
I found the detail of Oxford University at this time fascinating particularly the differences that women and men faced whilst doing their undergraduate studies in the 1920s
The list of what the women had to do to avoid the men was particularly interesting and seemed primarily to involve avoiding the man as much as possible and not upsetting the male undergraduate experience of university life.
It must’ve been really gauling for the young women seeing the relative freedom of the men had to go out their daily life compared with the rigidity of the rules that applied to women only.
I’ve read quite a lot of novels set an time of suffragettes. This is the first time I have read anything set just afterwards with the daughters of the original suffragettes now seeing signs of female liberation.
Throughout the novel there are mentions of writers writing novels and poems at the time ,as somebody who mostly reads new novels it intrigued me to think that I could have been reading Agatha Christie or other novels of the time made me think who among the authors that I am fond of now will become in time classics
Is quite a lot of formatting error with this with multiple numbers appearing on every page on NetGalley mixed up with the text I persevered with the story as I was interested in the characters
The author has a easily red writing style and the novel was an enjoyable read
She describes the individual girls characters succinctly and precisely and do you feel like they are real people
I read an only copy on NetGalley UK. The book was published in the UK march 2025 by Penguin General UK
This review will appear on Goodreads, NetGalley UK, and my book blog bionicsarahsbooks.wordpress.com. It will also appear on Amazon UK.
I found the detail of Oxford University at this time fascinating particularly the differences that women and men faced whilst doing their undergraduate studies in the 1920s
The list of what the women had to do to avoid the men was particularly interesting and seemed primarily to involve avoiding the man as much as possible and not upsetting the male undergraduate experience of university life.
It must’ve been really gauling for the young women seeing the relative freedom of the men had to go out their daily life compared with the rigidity of the rules that applied to women only.
I’ve read quite a lot of novels set an time of suffragettes. This is the first time I have read anything set just afterwards with the daughters of the original suffragettes now seeing signs of female liberation.
Throughout the novel there are mentions of writers writing novels and poems at the time ,as somebody who mostly reads new novels it intrigued me to think that I could have been reading Agatha Christie or other novels of the time made me think who among the authors that I am fond of now will become in time classics
Is quite a lot of formatting error with this with multiple numbers appearing on every page on NetGalley mixed up with the text I persevered with the story as I was interested in the characters
The author has a easily red writing style and the novel was an enjoyable read
She describes the individual girls characters succinctly and precisely and do you feel like they are real people
I read an only copy on NetGalley UK. The book was published in the UK march 2025 by Penguin General UK
This review will appear on Goodreads, NetGalley UK, and my book blog bionicsarahsbooks.wordpress.com. It will also appear on Amazon UK.