emma_rreads 's review for:

The Eights by Joanna Miller

3.75

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Told from the perspective of four young women in the post WWI years who become the first women to graduate from Oxford with degrees. It took me a fair while to become fully invested in this story, but what evolved was a beautifully written story of female friendship at a time of historical importance for the feminist cause. It's not a racing drama, but instead something very subtle and wonderfully historically detailed.