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"Opal Plumstead is fiercely intelligent: a proud scholarship girl, with plans to go to university. Yet her dreams are shattered when her father is sent to prison, and fourteen-year-old Opal must abandon school and start work at the Fairy Glen sweet factory. Opal struggles to get along with the other workers, who think her snobby and stuck up. But Opal idolizes Mrs Roberts, the factory's beautiful, dignified owner, who introduces her to the legendary Emmeline Pankhurst and her fellow suffragettes. And when Opal meets Morgan - Mrs Roberts' handsome son, and the heir to Fairy Glen - she believes…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2014Doubleday Children's · 304 pages · 9780857531094
- Other · English · 2014Doubleday UK · 9780857531100
World War, 1914-1918Juvenile fictionChildren's fictionWorld war, 1914-1918, fiction