Opal Plumstead

Opal Plumstead is an intelligent schoolgirl whose academic ambitions are upended when her father is imprisoned. Forced to leave school at age fourteen, she takes a job working at a sweet factory to help support her family. There, she encounters a diverse group of coworkers and meets the factory owner, who introduces her to the early twentieth-century suffragette movement. As she navigates her new working-class reality, Opal must forge her own path amidst a rapidly changing society.

by Jacqueline Wilson

Penguin Random House · First published 2014 · 528 pages