The Eights - Joanna Miller Hardback

The Eights - Joanna Miller HardbackOxford, 1920. For the first time in its 1000 year history, the world's most famous university has admitted female students. Giddy with dreams of equality, education and emancipation, four young women move into neighbouring rooms on Corridor Eight. They have come here from all walks of life, and they are thrown into an unlikely, life affirming friendship. Dora was never meant to go to university, but, after losing both her brother and her fianc on the

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