{"product_id":"9781398520738","title":"The Troublemakers : A big-hearted, soul-lifting story of friendship, football and fighting for the life you want - SIGNED COPY with beautiful sprayed edges","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Quinn, Frances \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 12\/03\/2026,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 400 pages, N-A,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781398520738,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWelcome to the British Ladies Football ClubLondon, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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?A 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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR FRANCES QUINN:‘A compelling, heart-warming novel’ GILL PAUL‘Powerful and inspiring’ ANNA MAZZOLA‘A beautifully written page-turner’ LILA CAIN‘Utterly compelling’ ESSIE FOX‘Immersive and intriguing’ HAZEL GAYNOR‘A vivid, compelling and immaculately researched story’ LUCY BARKER\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56204595986805,"sku":"9781398520738","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781398520738","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}