Things a Bright Girl Can Do: Sally Nicholls

Things a Bright Girl Can Do: Sally Nicholls

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Beschreibung

Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2019, National Book Award, Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards and the YA Book Prize

Through rallies and marches, in polite drawing rooms and freezing prison cells and the poverty-stricken slums of the East End, three courageous young women join the fight for the vote.

Evelyn is seventeen, and though she is rich and clever, she may never be allowed to follow her older brother to university. Enraged that she is expected to marry her childhood sweetheart rather than be educated, she joins the Suffragettes, and vows to pay the ultimate price for women's freedom.

May is fifteen, and already sworn to the cause, though she and her fellow Suffragists refuse violence. When she meets Nell, a girl who's grown up in hardship, she sees a kindred spirit. Together and in love, the two girls start to dream of a world where all kinds of women have their place.

But the fight for freedom will challenge Evelyn, May and Nell more than they ever could believe. As war looms, just how much are they willing to sacrifice?
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432
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A young man in horn-rimmed spectacles told her giving women the vote would be a disaster because on week out of four, women were biologically incapable of rational thought. This was a rather shocking thing for a strange man to say, and for a moment Evelyn was blindsighted. Then she told him furiously that that meant three weeks out of every four they were capable, which was more than could be said for men. I was absolutely looking forward to this book. History and LGBT representation? Sign me up! In the end, I'm glad that I didn't buy a physical copy of the book. I liked the LGBT aspect but the characters were really flat - I can't say that I liked one of them more than the other, they were all kind of "meh" to me. I hoped that the storyline connects all three main characters but it didn't and therefore it felt like the author told two different stories in one book. Adding to that, as much as I appreciate gay representation in books, the romance was incredibly rushed. What really annoyed me as well was the constant use of the word "jolly". The ending of the book seemed strange to me. Deaths and illnesses of characters were probably supposed to be dramatic but I just couldn't care. I was looking forward to the end of the book because I lost interest and wanted it to be over. However, the ending was really dissatisfying and seemed a bit choppy.

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