Strait Lace

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. When her uncle provides the money to study biology at Bedford College, London, Harriet splits her time between her studies, her romance with young Doctor Tom Bardhill, and activism with the Women’s Social and Political Union, the party founded by the notorious Pankhurst women.

From chalking pavements to marching in the street to throwing stones through windows, you will wonder just how far Harriet will go.

Strait Lace is the first of two books centered on Loxley Hall, the Loxley family’s Nottingham home.