Opal plain-talking, fiery Opal, who fights her fellow workers, has taken over the entire design department and is now a mini-suffragette?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.A brilliantly gripping wartime story from the bestselling, award-winning Jacqueline Wilson.
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