{"product_id":"the-eights-9780593851432","title":"The Eights","description":"\u003cb\u003eFour young women. Four very different lives. One unshakeable friendship. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing the unlikely friendship of four women in the first female class at Oxford, their unshakable bond in the face of male contempt, and their coming of age in a world forever changed by World War I. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Entertaining and moving...I came to love these four women as though they were my sisters.\" --Tracy Chevalier, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1920, in the wake of World War I and for the first time in its one-thousand-year history, Oxford University officially admits female students. Bursting with dreams, four young women move into Corridor 8. Beatrice, Dora, Marianne, and Otto--collectively known as The Eights--come from all walks of life, each searching for an unknown future while holding tight to their secrets. A brash socialite too smart for her own good. A beautiful sister arriving in place of her lost soldier brother. A too-tall daughter desperate to escape her famous suffragette mother. A timid scholarship student with the biggest secret of all. Their unlikely friendship will change them in ways they could never have imagined. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmong the historic spires and hallowed halls, and in the dark shadow of the Great War, the four women must rely on one another to survive a turbulent world where misogyny is rife, influenza is still a threat, and the ghosts of our great loves don't always remain dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoanna Miller \u003c\/b\u003ewas raised in Cambridge, UK, and studied English at Oxford University. After a decade in education, she set up an award-winning poetry gift business and her rhyming verse has been filmed twice by the BBC. Miller recently graduated from Oxford again, with a diploma in creative writing. She lives with her husband and three children in Hertfordshire. \u003ci\u003eThe Eights\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"G.P. Putnam's Sons","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52176254173458,"sku":"9780593851432","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b9093f76-830c-4ed7-8872-d518d3bf9ec8.jpg?v=1775560149","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-eights-9780593851432","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}