The Eights
They knew they were changing history
They didn’t know they would change each other
Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its 1,000-year history, Oxford University officially admits female students. Burning with dreams of equality, four young women move into neighbouring rooms in Corridor 8. Beatrice, Dora, Marianne, and Otto (collectively known as The Eights) come from all walks of life, each driven by their own motives, each holding tight to their secrets – and are thrown into an unlikely, unshakeable friendship.
Amongst the historic spires, and in the long shadow of the Great War, the four women must navigate and support each other in a turbulent world in which misogyny is rife, influenza is still a threat, and the dead do not always remain dead.
“The Eights is an entertaining and moving imagining of four smart women dealing with the engrained misogyny of the time. I came to love and admire the four as if they were my sisters.”
— TRACY CHEVALIER, author of Girl With a Pearl Earring