Opal Plumstead

By: Wilson, Jacqueline

Language: English

Quality: Good

Genre: Children Books, Children books Age 9-12,

ISBN: 9780552574013

SKU: BE500816884413

Pages: 528

Description: NOTE : BOOK HAS STAINS DUE TO AGE BUT THE CONTENT IS IN GOOD CONDITION. Opal Plumstead might be plain, but she has always been fiercely intelligent. Yet her scholarship and dreams of university are snatched away when her father is sent to prison, and fourteen-year-old Opal must start work at the Fairy Glen sweet factory to support her family. She struggles to get along with her other workers, who think she's snobby and stuck up. But Opal idolises Mrs Roberts, the factory's beautiful, dignified owner. The best thing about Mrs Roberts? She's a suffragette! Opal's world is opened to Mrs Pankhurst, and the fight to give women the right to vote. And when Opal meets Morgan, Mrs Roberts' handsome son , and heir to Fairy Glen- she believes she's found her soulmate. But the First World War is about to begin, and will change Opal's life for ever.