Spread across decades of British life, these four narratives trace the paths of women who find their ways through circumstances designed to stop them. Some face violent men, some suspicious communities, some the quiet grind of wartime uncertainty. What they share is an instinct for solidarity and the capacity to make something from difficult conditions - literally and otherwise. Cox, Firth, Jacobs and Thompson all write this kind of story with real authority, and the warmth they bring is entirely earned.
Betty Firth, A New Home in the Dales - A city girl, a Yorkshire village that doesn't want her, and a winter that changes everything.
Kate Thompson, The Allotment Girls - In the shadow of the Blitz, women dig, plant and find in each other something the war cannot take.
Josephine Cox, The Gilded Cage - One man's iron grip on his family is about to meet the daughter he abandoned and the truth he buried.
Anna Jacobs, Winds of Change - Lizzie runs from a brutal marriage into a world of suffragettes, munitions and the chance of a life truly her own.
