Synopsis
Opal Plumstead is fiercely intelligent: a proud scholarship girl, with plans to go to university. Yet her dreams are shattered when her father is sent to prison, and fourteen-years-old Opal must abandon school and start work at the Fairy Glen sweet factory.
Opal struggles to get along with other workers, who think her snobby and stuck up. But Opal idolizes Mrs Roberts, the factory's beautiful, dignified owner, who introduces her to the legendary Emmeline Pankhurst and her fellow suffragettes. And when Opal meets Morgan - Mrs Roberts' handsome son, and the heir to Fairy Glen - she believes she has found her soulmate.
But the First World War is looming on the horizon, and will change Opal's life for ever.
The brilliant new story from the nation's best-loved storyteller, starring her most outspoken, fiery and unforgettable heroine yet.
Opal struggles to get along with other workers, who think her snobby and stuck up. But Opal idolizes Mrs Roberts, the factory's beautiful, dignified owner, who introduces her to the legendary Emmeline Pankhurst and her fellow suffragettes. And when Opal meets Morgan - Mrs Roberts' handsome son, and the heir to Fairy Glen - she believes she has found her soulmate.
But the First World War is looming on the horizon, and will change Opal's life for ever.
The brilliant new story from the nation's best-loved storyteller, starring her most outspoken, fiery and unforgettable heroine yet.
Titre original : Opal Plumstead
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2014 
Editions Doubleday
304 pages
9 octobre 2014
ISBN : 9780857531094
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