When 16-year-old Lizzie Parsons starts to meet women involved in the
suffragist cause, she has no idea of the dramatic changes that lie
ahead. As the women's rights campaign fights on, Lizzie must also face
her own personal battle with a violent, abusive father. Beautifully
judged and sensitively written, this is a novel that speaks powerfully
to a contemporary readership by placing domestic and sexual abuse, an
issue as relevant now as in 1912, at the heart of the story. As Lizzie
begins to realize, it is both deeds and words that will win for women.