Like Fire-Hearted Suns by Melanie Joosten, Ultimo Press
Most of us recall stories of the suffragettes from school – the horrors endured, the courage summoned in the battle for women to win the vote. We take that right for granted now, but like author Melanie Joosten I was captivated by these fearless warriors.
Her new novel, is essential reading, an extraordinary tale that takes us right into the heart of that vital period in history. Melanie says her inspiration was “a picture I saw in a high-school history class of women prison warders forcibly feeding a suffragette – I wondered how something so brutal could come of demanding the vote and knew there was more of a story there.”
