Description:ISBN 0192792148 / Genre: Junior Books / Author: Julie Hearn / Paperback / 368 Pages / Book is published 2007-09-06 by Oxford University ... more

Hazel - Julie Hearn ... Press / Sweet but dull - that's how life has always been for Hazel Louise Mull-Dare. With money pouring in from the family's Caribbean sugar plantation, a father who spoils her rotten, and no pressure to excel in anything whatsoever, her future is looking as prim and proper as one of her hats. But on the day of the Epsom Derby - June 4th, 1913 - everything changes. A woman in a dark coat steps out in front of the King's horse, dying days later from her injuries. Who was she and why did she do it? Hazel is determined to find out. But finding out leads her into worse trouble than she could ever have imagined. It leads to banishment. To secrets that have festered, and a shame that lingers on. To madness and misunderstanding in the place where sugar cane grows. Sweet but dull - that's how life used to be for Hazel Louise Mull-Dare. Not any more.

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 ... her days in the Battersea Dogs' Home. Her inquires about suffragettes are not welcome - most people, including those of her own sex consider them to be dolally womenand the subject is not deemed appropriate for Hazel's young and sensitive ears. Hazel is a strong-minded girl with a need for independence and the idea of making a stand in a name of more rights for women appeals to her growing need for rebellion and self-assertion. When her own plotting gets mixed up with a major family crisis, she gets sent to the Wes...more