The Eights

The Eights

This title has a release date of April 15, 2025. See below for more information.

Written by: Joanna Miller

The Eights Release Date

The Eights releases April 15, 2025

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The Eights Synopsis

They knew they were changing history.

They didn’t know they would change each other.Following the unlikely friendship of four of the first ever women to matriculate at Oxford University in the aftermath of the First World War, a captivating debut novel about sisterhood, self-determination and the many forms courage can take.

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. Beatrice, Dora, Marianne and Otto (collectively known as The Eights) 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 fianc̩ on the battlefield, has arrived in their place. Politically-minded Beatrice, daughter of a famous suffragette, sees Oxford as a chance to make her own way Рand some friends her own age. Otto was a nurse during the war but is excited to return to her socialite lifestyle in Oxford Рwhere she hopes to find distraction from the memories that haunt her.

And finally Marianne, the quiet, clever daughter of a village pastor, who has a shocking secret she must hide from everyone, even her new friends, if she is to succeed.

But Oxford’s dreaming spires cast a dark shadow: in 1920, misogyny is still rife, influenza is still a threat, and the ghosts of the Great War are still very real indeed. And as the group navigate this tumultuous moment in time, their friendship will become more important than ever….

REVIEWS:

‘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

‘My book of the year. The writing is wonderful, the subject fascinating and the storylines utterly absorbing. I’m so sad I’ve finished it. I loved everything about this book. I ADORED it’ ― JILL MANSELL

‘I so enjoyed The Eights and became completely involved in the lives of the four pioneering heroines whose friendship is the beating heart of the book’ ― CLARE CHAMBERS, author of Small Pleasures

‘A story about women taking their place in a man’s world, The Eights beautifully captures the power of friendship and love in the wake of extraordinary loss. It was a pleasure to read’ ― PIP WILLIAMS, author of The Dictionary of Lost Words

‘Totally immersive and captivating. This is a GLORIOUS debut and the struggles of these four women felt incredibly real. Impeccably researched and beautifully written. I ADORED it. One of my books of the year for sure’ ― JULIE OWEN MOYLAN, author of That Green Eyed Girl

Genre: Historical Fiction

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