She soon comes to admire her employer, Mrs Roberts, a suffragetteĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 07:23:08 Associated-names Sharratt, Nick, illustrator Boxid IA40010817 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Can she make it sweet again?' - cover.-Young Opal Plumstead gives up her Scholarship and leaves school to work in a sweet factory, to help her family while her father is away fighting in the First World War. But the First World War is looming on the horizon, and will change Opal's life for ever And when Opal meets Morgan - Mrs Roberts' handsome son, and the heir to Fairy Glen - she believes she has found her soulmate. But Opal idolizes Mrs Roberts, the factory's beautiful, dignified owner, who introduces her to the legendary Emmeline Pankhurst and her fellow suffragettes.

Opal struggles to get along with the other workers, who think her snobby and stuck up. Yet her dreams are shattered when her father is sent to prison, and fourteen-year-old Opal must abandon school and start work at the Fairy Glen sweet factory. Opal Plumstead is fiercely intelligent: a proud scholarship girl, with plans to go to university.

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