Things a Bright Girl Can Do Award-winning author by Sally Nicholls (author) (UK edition)

Britain, 1914. The world stands on the edge of change. But what’s a bright girl to do? Answer: not much. Nice girls can’t wear trousers. They can’t study engineering. They can’t live alone. And they definitely can’t vote. So – stuff being ladylike! Now three brave young women are speaking up. Evelyn wants to study, not marry. May is fifteen, a sworn suffragette. Nell is from the school of hard knocks – and now she’s in love. With May. Through rallies and marches, polite drawing rooms and freezing prison cells, East End slums and government chambers, these girls are determined to fight for their rights. But as the Great War looms, how much are they willing to sacrifice?

A gripping tale of war and the fight for women’s freedom

By the hugely acclaimed author of Ways to Live Forever

That book won the 2008 Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize

Sally Nicholls also won the 2006 Orange New Voices Award

Contains mature content and language

“Utterly compelling. Historical fiction at its best.” Hilary McKay

“Each voice is distinct, resonant and authentic… uniquely special.” Guardian

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781783446735

Publisher

Andersen Press Ltd

Date published

November 2nd, 2017

Lexile measure

820L

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 5.8; Upper years; 14.0 points

Other details

432 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Author/Illustrator

Sally Nicholls

Sally Nicholls was born in Stockton. After graduating in Philosophy and Literature, she took an MA in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University where she wrote WAYS TO LIVE FOREVER when she was twenty-three. Published in 2008, it won the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize, has been translated into many languages and made into a film. Her second novel, SEASON OF SECRETS, came out in 2010, and ALL FALL DOWN is published in 2012.