** Shortlisted in the 2020 Parliamentary Book Awards **
** A Sunday Times bestseller **

Well-behaved women don’t make history: difficult women do.

Strikers in saris. Bomb-throwing suffragettes. The pioneer of the refuge movement who became a men’s rights activist.

Forget feel-good heroines: meet the feminist trailblazers who have been airbrushed from history for being ‘difficult’ – and discover how they made a difference.

Here are their stories in all their shocking, funny and unvarnished glory.

‘This is the antidote to saccharine you-go-girl fluff. Effortlessly erudite and funny’ Caroline Criado-Perez

‘Compulsive, rigorous, unforgettable, hilarious and devastating’ Hadley Freeman