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Narrated by: Nicola Barber, Ruth Moore, Eliza Foss, Kathleen McInerney, Paula J Parker

Unabridged — 8 hours, 4 minutes

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Overview

The novel opens in England in 1915, at the deathbed of Dorothy Townsend, a suffragist and one of the first women to integrate Cambridge University. Her decision to starve herself for the cause informs and echoes in the later, overlapping narratives of her descendants. Among them are her daughter Evie, who becomes a professor of chemistry at Barnard College in the middle of the century and never marries, and her granddaughter Dorothy Townsend Barrett, who focuses her grief over the loss of h...