Crooked Pieces

London, 1905. Maggie’s new position as a maid lifts her from East End poverty and brings her into the world of the suffragettes, in particular the Pankhursts—icons for a generation of women in search of equality and the right to vote. Before long her life takes another exciting turn when she begins ‘walking out’ with a young police officer, Fred Thorpe.

As Maggie becomes drawn into an increasingly militant battle with the authorities, she is torn between her loyalty to the man she loves and her passionate belief in the cause for which she is fighting. Is Maggie prepared to sacrifice her one chance of happiness for the sake of a future she may never see?

An intriguing and even-handed historical novel with portraits of historic figures like the Pankhurst women and other Suffragettes

Sarah Grazebrook exchanged a career as a television actress for one as a writer following the birth of her second child. Her first novel, Not Waving, won the Cosmopolitan Fiction Prize and she has written six others. She writes a monthly column, "Notes from the Garret", for Kent Life and contributes to a variety of satirical radio programs. Sarah has wide experience of teaching creative writing for the Arvon Foundation and at Macon in France.