The Eights

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Pub Date 3 Apr 2025 | Archive Date 16 Apr 2025

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‘Entertaining and moving…I came to love these four women as though they were my sisters’ TRACY CHEVALIER

‘I ADORED it. What a fantastic read. My book of the year’ JILL MANSELL

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They knew they were changing history.
They didn’t know they would change each other.

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 on Corridor Eight. They 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 fiancé on the battlefield, has arrived in their place. Beatrice, politically-minded daughter of a famous suffragette, sees Oxford as a chance to make her own way – and her own friends – for the first time. Socialite Otto fills her room with extravagant luxuries but fears they won’t be enough to distract her from her memories of the war years. And quiet, clever, Marianne, the daughter of a village vicar, arrives bearing a secret she must hide from everyone – even The Eights – 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.

The Eights is a captivating debut novel about sisterhood, self-determination, courage, and what it means to come of age in a world that is forever changed.

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'Beautifully captures the power of friendship ... A pleasure to read' PIP WILLIAMS, author of A Dictionary of Lost Words


'I so enjoyed The Eights' CLARE CHAMBERS, author of Small Pleasures

‘Entertaining and moving…I came to love these four women as though they were my sisters’ TRACY CHEVALIER

‘I ADORED it. What a fantastic read. My book of the year’ JILL MANSELL

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They knew they were...


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ISBN 9780241662434
PRICE £16.99 (GBP)
PAGES 352

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Thank you so much for letting me read an e-arc of The Eights by Joanna Miller. As soon as I saw the blurb I knew it was right up my street, but had no idea just how much I would enjoy it. I’m going to stick my neck out and say it’s my favourite read this year. The writing is wonderful, the subject fascinating and the storylines utterly absorbing. I’m so sad I’ve finished it. I loved those girls and I loved everything about this book. It is just perfect.

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I absolutely love this story of womanhood and the historic Oxford University and how these woman all come together to unite into sisterhood. I enjoyed every moment! This is a perfect book for book clubs etc,Very excited for readers to have the opportunity to expertise book. I have a feeling it will be optioned for film as well

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