-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 come here from all walks of life, and they are thrown into an unlikely, life-affirming friendship. Dora was never meant to go to university, but, after losing both her brother and her fianc-n the battlefield, has arrived in their place. Beatrice, politically-minded daughter of a famous suffragette, sees Oxford as a chance to make her own way - and her own friends - for the first time. Socialite Otto fills her room with extravagant luxuries but fears they won-t be enough to dist
