‘Entertaining and moving…I came to love these four women as though they were my sisters’ TRACY CHEVALIER‘I ADORED it. What a fantastic read. My book of the year’ JILL MANSELL-They knew they were changing history.

They didn’t know they would change each other. Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its 1000-year history, the world’s most famous university has admitted female students.

Giddy with dreams of equality, education and emancipation, four young women move into neighbouring rooms on Corridor Eight. They have...