The Eights

They knew they were changing history. They didnΓÇÖt know they would change each other. Following the unlikely friendship of four women in the first female class at Oxford,their unshakeable bond in the face of male contemptand their coming of age in a world forever changed by World War I. ΓÇ£Entertaining and movingΓǪI came to love these four women as though they were my sisters.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöTRACY CHEVALIER#1 New York Times bestselling author Oxford1920. For the first time in its one-thousand-year historyOxford University officially admits female students. Burning with dreams of equalityfour young women move into neighboring rooms in Corridor 8. BeatriceDoraMarianneand OttoΓÇöcollectively known as The EightsΓÇöcome from all walks of lifeeach driven by their own motiveseach holding tight to their secretsand are thrown into an unlikelyunshakable friendship. Dora was never meant to go to universitybutafter losing both her brother and her fianc├⌐ on the battlefieldhas arrived in their place. Politically-minded Beatricedaughter of a famous suffragettesees Oxford as a chance to make her own way – and some friends her own age. Otto was a nurse during the war but is excited to return to her socialite lifestyle in Oxford where she hopes to find distraction from the memories that haunt her. And finally Mariannethe quietclever daughter of a village pastorwho has a shocking secret she must hide from everyoneeven her new friendsif she is to succeed. Among the historic spiresand in the long shadow of the Great Warthe four women must navigate and support one another in a turbulent world in which misogyny is rifeinfluenza is still a threatand the ghosts of the Great War donΓÇÖt always remain dead.