{"product_id":"troublemakers-10","title":"Scandalous Ladies Football Club","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWelcome to the British Ladies Football Club\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLondon, 1897. Minnie Newton – twenty-eight-year-old schoolteacher and women’s rights advocate – has a passion for football. But in Victorian society, football is a men's game. That is, until Minnie decides to take matters into her own hands and place an ad in the newspaper, asking for volunteers to join the first ever women’s football team.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom a motley collection of replies, Minnie puts together a squad. Most of the women have never kicked a ball before – but a little thing like that isn’t about to stop them. And when they take the game public, it isn’t long before they are drawing huge crowds, stirring controversy across the capital and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Minnie is hiding an explosive secret. Soon, all the attention the club is getting begins to threaten the life she has built for herself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCan she walk the line between independence and safety, or will the truth about who she really is finally come out? And is the beautiful game enough to save her freedom?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA story inspired by real-life Victorian trailblazers, who showed the world that women can do anything they put their minds to, even if the world around them says they can’t.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR FRANCES QUINN:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘An uplifting, warmhearted, glorious romp of a novel where the underdogs triumph and the world is put to rights…Frances Quinn has such a talent for tackling serious historical topics with heart, humour, and humanity.' \u003cb\u003eLOUISE FEIN\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A triumphant, heart-lifting read about friendship, resilience, and rewriting the rules.’ \u003cb\u003eNIKKI SMITH\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Frances Quinn remains top of the historical fiction league with this feminist, feelgood page-turner’\u003cb\u003e PENNY BATCHELOR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Packed with wit, humour, and warmth. Frances Quinn scores again.' \u003cb\u003eEMILIA HART \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This funny, heart-warming story examines friendship, female power and what it really means to be an independent woman in Victorian England.' \u003cb\u003eELENI KYRIACOU\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Full of heart and humour … a hymn to friendship and a celebration of female power’ \u003cb\u003eNICOLA GILL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Frances Quinn is the Sarina Wiegman of historical fiction, producing a winner every time!’ \u003cb\u003eTREVOR WOOD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Full of humour, friendship, and wonderful characters that leap off the page’ \u003cb\u003eLOUISE HARE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Frances Quinn has effortlessly captured the spirit of an era in this delightful page-turner of a novel' \u003cb\u003eJOANNA GLEN\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A compelling, heart-warming novel’\u003cb\u003e GILL PAUL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A beautifully written page-turner’ \u003cb\u003eLILA CAIN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Utterly compelling’ \u003cb\u003eESSIE FOX \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Immersive and intriguing’ \u003cb\u003eHAZEL GAYNOR \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55761545134424,"sku":"9781398520738","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781398520738.jpg?v=1780419629","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/troublemakers-10","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}