Hazel by julie hearn5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() As if this wasn't intriguing enough, immediately after the accident a man in the crowd attacks a female spectator. The crowd is distracted when a woman in a black coat dashes into the path of the horses and is kicked in the head, severely wounding her. Hazel Louise Mull-Dare is nearly 13 years old on a June day in 1913 when she and her father attend a horse race near their London home, an event that will change her life forever - in more ways than one. ![]() There Hazel is forced to confront the dark secrets of her family - secrets that have festered, and a shame that lingers on. ![]() Such great trouble that she is banished from London, all the way to where her family fortune originates - a sugar plantation in the Caribbean. And when her bold new friend Gloria convinces her to take on the cause, Hazel gets her first taste of rebellion.īut doing so leads her into greater trouble than she could have ever imagined. She dies days later, bringing further attention to the suffragist cause. ![]() A woman in a dark coat steps in front of the king's horse, in protest at the injustice of denying women the vote. With an adoring father who grants her every wish, a place in the Kensington School for the Daughters of Gentlemen, and no pressure to excel in anything whatsoever, her future looks primly predictable.īut on the day of the Epsom Derby - J- everything changes. Hazel Louise Mull-Dare has a good life, but it's so dull. ![]()
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