The eights

"Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its 1,000-year history, Oxford University officially admits female students. Burning with dreams of equality, four young women move into neighboring rooms in Corridor 8. Beatrice, Dora, Marianne, and Otto--collectively known as The Eights--come from all walks of...

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Main Author: Miller, Joanna, 1969- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2025]
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Summary:"Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its 1,000-year history, Oxford University officially admits female students. Burning with dreams of equality, four young women move into neighboring rooms in Corridor 8. Beatrice, Dora, Marianne, and Otto--collectively known as The Eights--come from all walks of life, each driven by their own motives, each holding tight to their secrets--and are thrown into an unlikely, unshakeable friendship. Among the historic spires, and in the long shadow of the Great War, the four women must navigate and support one another in a turbulent world in which misogyny is rife, influenza is still a threat, and the dead do not always remain dead ..."--
Physical Description:369 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 368-369).
ISBN:9780593851418
0593851412
Author Notes:Joanna Miller was raised in Cambridge, UK, and studied English at Oxford University. After a decade in education, she set up an award-winning poetry gift business and her rhyming verse has been filmed twice by the BBC. Miller recently graduated from Oxford again, with a diploma in creative writing. She lives with her husband and three children in Hertfordshire. The Eights is her first novel.