Oxford 1920. For the first time in its 1000-year history the world's most famous university
has admitted female students. Giddy with dreams of equality education and emancipation four
young women move into neighbouring rooms on Corridor Eight. They have come here from all walks
of life and they are thrown into an unlikely life-affirming friendship. Dora was never meant
to go to university but after losing both her brother and her fiancé on the battlefield has
arrived in their place. Beatrice politically-minded daughter of a famous suffragette sees
Oxford as a chance to make her own way - and her own friends - for the first time. Socialite
Otto fills her room with extravagant luxuries but fears they won't be enough to distract her
from her memories of the war years. And quiet clever Marianne the daughter of a village
vicar arrives bearing a secret she must hide from everyone - even The Eights - if she is to
succeed. But Oxford's dreaming spires cast a dark shadow: in 1920 misogyny is still rife
influenza is still a threat and the ghosts of the Great War are still very real indeed. And as
the group navigate this tumultuous moment in time their friendship will become more important
than ever.
