Opal Plumstead might be plain but she has always been fiercely intelligent Yet her scholarship & dreams of university are snatched away when her father is sent to prison & fourteen-year-old Opal must start work at the Fairy Glen sweet factory to support her family Opal struggles to get along with the other workers who think her snobby & stuck-up But Opal idolises Mrs Roberts the factory's beautiful dignified owner who introduces Opal to the legendary Mrs Pankhurst & her fellow Suffragettes & when Opal meets Morgan
- Mrs Roberts' handsome son & the heir to Fairy Glen
- she believes she has found her soulmate But the First World War is about to begin & will change Opal's life for ever The brilliantly gripping new story from the bestselling award-winning Jacqueline Wilson