The Unstoppable Letty Pegg

ISBN: 9781472962478 出版年：2020 页码：367 Iszi Lawrence Bloomsbury Publishing

Brilliant debut historical adventuand comedian Iszi Lawrence, perfect for fans of Emma Carroll, The Princess and the Suffragette, and Opal Plumstead. The story of the suffragettes with the Jiu Jitsu and roller skating left in... this impeccably researched debut novel from Iszi Lawrence shows the fight for women's suffrage as it really was. Lettice Pegg's father is a working-class policeman and her mother is a middle-class suffragette. Stuck between them (and her terrifying grandma) Lettice mostly cares about trying to fit in at school and convincing her parents to let hskates and go to the music hall. But, when Lettice sees her mother brutally thrown to the ground by a policeman while on a protest march, her life changes forever. Not all of the women on the march are vulnerable to attack. Some secret weapon: Jiu Jitsu.As the suffragettes welcome Lettice to the fight back, things at home worse. Can Lettice bring her family back together and keep her new friends?