ACHUKA Book of the Day 5 Jul 2021
They can take our ball, but they can never stop the game.
A timely, important and well-researched ‘middle-grade’ historical novel about the growth in women’s football on the home front during WWI. Publication of the novel marks the centenary of the FA’s shameful banning of women’s football in 1921—a ban that remained in place for 50 years.
Who better to tell you more about the book than the author herself:
A hundred years before the Lionesses, Lily Parr, Alice Woods and their teammates were proudly playing their beloved, exciting and skilful game. As men were sent to fight in the war, women and girls took their place in munitions factories. Football became a favourite pastime and, before long, they were creating all-female sides and playing public matches to sell-out crowds, overshadowing the men’s football.
“Absolutely magnificent! A glorious tale of football, friendship, feminism and social history”
EMMA CARROLL