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Strait Lace is the story of a suffragette.
It is 1905: Edwardian England. Harriet Loxley, the daughter of a vicar, and a member of a prominent Nottingham lace-making family, wants the vote and she wants it now.
From chalking pavements to marching with women in the street, and from throwing stones through windows to setting fire to buildings, you will wonder just how far Harriet will go.
Meanwhile the lace-making business is having troubles of its own and Harriet and her brothers and sisters are having to find their own way through life.
Part women's fiction, part family saga, Strait Lace is an insight into life in England in the 1900s that will make you stop and think.
When seventeen-year-old Jenny North sets out to discover why her stepmother disappeared without warning she discovers that truth is a slippery companion. What Jenny can know, what she does get to know and what she imagines knowing are not all the same. Even when pieced together, like the shattered remains of a stained-glass window, are the unearthed bits of history really Margaret?
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