Liz Newman

Set at the turn of the 20th century, this e-book is a story revolving around the early Suffrage movement, as women began to realise that they could do as much as men, and deserved to be recognised for their skills. It paints a moving picture of life for many impoverished women, employed at a mill in Manchester, where their health was seriously at risk. Josie, heroine of the book, has been left a small shop and is determined to make it a success, while keeping an eye out for her teenage niece Sarah. What she doesn't expect is that she will meet and fall in love... and, in this era, she must eventually decide whether she cares more for the cause she is working for, or the man who would like to marry her...

The characterisation is good, and the pace works well. There are descriptions, just enough to give me a general feeling of where each scene was set, but without becoming boring. This novel is based on a true story, and includes some real people by name (such as the Pankhurst family) but I could not tell where the line was between history and fiction.

My only problem with this is that there are two places where the same section is repeated; I don't think anything is missing, but I had to page through a couple of chapters in one place to find where the book continued. There were also some minor formatting errors on my Kindle, and a few typing or punctuation errors in the early pages; happily there were very few of these as the book progressed.

Recommended if you are interested in women's rights in the early 1900s.… (plus d'informations)