Everyone's got that history, I guess. Everyone's got a story.When Emily meets the enigmatic and dazzling actress Tamsin, her life changes. Drawn into Tamsin's world of Soho living, boozy dinners, impulsive decisions and cocktails at impossibly expensive bars, Emily's life shifts from black and white to technicolour and the two women become inseparable.Tamsin is the friend Emily has always longed for; beautiful, fun, intelligent and mysterious and soon Emily is neglecting her previous life - her work assisting vulnerable women, her old friend Lucy - to bask in her glow. But when a bombshell news article breaks, Emily realises that Tamsin has been hiding something about her past life. Something that threatens to unravel everything...Young Women is a razor sharp novel that slices to the heart of our most important relationships and shows how easily and often women are damaged, both by men and by each other.
Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories of the abolitionist and women's suffrage movements, Davis examines the racism and class prejudice inherent in so much of white feminism, and in doing so brings to light new pioneering heroines, from field slaves to mill workers, who fought back and refused to accept the lives into which they were born. 'The power of her historical insights and the sweetness of her dream cannot be denied' The New York Times
