Opal Plumstead Av Jacqueline Wilson

<i><b>‘Opal – plain-talking, fiery Opal, who fights her fellow workers, has taken over the entire design department and is now a mini-suffragette?</b></i><p>Opal Plumstead might be plain, but she has always been fiercely intelligent.</p><p>Yet her scholarship and dreams of university are snatched away when her father is sent to prison, and fourteen-year-old Opal must start work at the Fairy Glen sweet factory to support her family.</p><p>She struggles to get along with her other workers, who think she’s snobby and stuck up. <b>But Opal idolises Mrs Roberts, the factory’s beautiful, dignified owner. </b></p><p><b>The best thing about Mrs Roberts? She’s a suffragette!</b></p><p>Opal’s world is opened to Mrs Pankhurst, and the fight to give women the right to vote. And when Opal meets Morgan, Mrs Roberts’ handsome son , and heir to Fairy Glen- she believes she’s found her soulmate.</p><p>But the First World War is about to begin, and will change Opal's life for ever.</p><p><b>A brilliantly gripping wartime story from the bestselling, award-winning Jacqueline Wilson.</b></p>