A Woman's Place

by Elizabeth Lord, Maggie Ford

Eveline’s father believes a woman’s place is in the home...

But when she is accidentally caught up in a suffragette march, it changes her life forever.

She finds friendships, and even the possibility of love too in the form of the gentlemanly Laurence Jones-Fairbrook. But will she be forced to choose between her family and friends... between duty and love?

( previously published as Give Me Tomorrow by Elizabeth Lord)

Genres: Historical Fiction, Romance

368 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 25, 2006

About the author

First published with short stories, went on to writing novels, family sagas and historicals around 1980s. First novel published by Piatkus, London, in 1992. Since then there has been 22 novels published with one in the pipeline and one with my publishers Severn House.
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Reviews

[Shirley Revill · Rating 4 out of 5]

Talented author. Very well written. Recommended.

[Moon · Rating 3 out of 5]

I got this book as a Christmas gift. It was hard to get into it but after a few chapters it looked promising. However the blurb at back of the book is very false. At first I thought Eveline would be with Laurence but he was only in the first half of the book. I don't really like how he was just written off. Laurence should have came back and acknowledged his daughter and pay child support. I don't like how Eveline and Albert's love story was written. The author didn't give us the satisfaction of them having a happy ever after with 2-3 children of their own. Like the author didn't even explore getting help with secondary infertility. The blurb also doesn't mention Connie, a major character in the story. There was a lot of needless repetition of details as well which was annoying. The author didn't really know how to write love stories. Also I would have preferred if all the major characters got their point of views instead of just a few.

[Sara · Rating 1 out of 5]

One star because I can't give it any less apparently. It's dreadful. For a book supposedly about women's suffrage, you'd you'd think there would be some strong female characters. Connie is bearable but Eveline is painfully bland and simpering. She's honestly dumber than a bag of rocks and I only made it through half the novel. What finally tipped me over the edge was the cringe inducing love making scenes, featuring obedient wives and needy men. The words 'she let him make love to her' were so overused it made me ill, if you are 'letting' someone have sex with you, you're doing it for duty and not for your own enjoyment. And those were the romantic ones.
Overall this book is boring and the romances are old fashioned. I didn't have the energy to care about any of the characters, except Eveline who I was actively hoping would die.
Don't read it, spare yourself.

[Miranda Leybourne · Rating 3 out of 5]

There were quite a few punctuation errors, but it did not detract from a good story. The author's writing is at times clunky and at other times confusing due to word arrangement, but all in all I enjoyed this story of two strong women and their friendship in an important historical time period.

[Lily · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think Lord forgot what the purpose of the story was once World War II came into the narrative and didn't know how to end it so the last half seems like a bunch of just add-ons.

[Paula R C R. C. Readman · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was the first of Elizabeth's books I read and enjoyed every minute of it.
She has the ability to take you back in time and make you feel your are standing with her characters as their story unfolds.

After reading 'Give me Tomorrow' I just could wait to read her next book.

[Bambola · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was set in a time period I don't usually read about and focused on two suffragettes around the time of WWI. I found it really interesting and enjoyed it although it had an odd ending. 3 1/2 stars is the true rating.

[Pauline Chamberlain · Rating 3 out of 5]

A usual typical English saga set during the time of the uprising of the suffragette movement, centreing around one womans hopes for her future after getting involved with the womans union