![]() ![]() Hazel's mother has always been on the eccentric side. But how can she change her life? It feels like an impossibility.Īs Hazel's claustrophobic existence continues, it is lightened only by her fun-loving and affectionate father. She is bored with her many expensive toys the only one she still plays with is a rocking horse, on which she gallops while imagining a wild ride into exotic lands. In her cosseted, luxurious, sheltered life, Hazel feels that she is at a crossroads. Hazel vaguely knows that suffragists are women who demand the right to vote. Sneaking into her father's den to read the newspaper, she discovers that the lady is a suffragist. ![]() While Hazel's father is preoccupied and refuses to discuss the wounded woman, Hazel is resourceful. ![]() ![]() He shouts about "you and your lot," claiming that nothing positive can come from their cause. 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. ![]()
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