Summary
In 1917 England, a group of young women finally decide that their roles to society won’t just
be those of daughters, sisters, wives and mothers.
When men where at the front, women had to replace them in the factories, and during one
occasional lunch break, 11 female workers of Doyle & Walker find themselves kicking a
ball.
The kick that started a revolution in the history of football, where also women formed teams
and played in stadiums; none of which was conquered easily.
Inspired by a true story, Ladies Football Club will take you in a journey that discovers the reason
behind that kick, and what it truly meant for those women. It does so with so much simplicity
and with the right amount of irony that you won’t even feel like reading a book.
Personal considerations
With a very simple writing yet precise in the concepts it delivered, the author was able to talk
about big social complications in a very joyful way, that made me laugh until the end.
That did not take the seriousness out of it, instead it made me sympathise with the characters
even more, to the point they felt extensions of my own self.
Another thing that has struck me that each character has her uniqueness, and played a
crucial part in the story.
For some parts I felt like I was reading a poem rather than a book, because Ladies Football Club is very poetic in
the way it narrates the events.
To get a hint of the tone of the narration, this is the best passage to quote:
«From those you raised you will accept every blow» was written on
page 21 of the “Handbook of the good mother”, but this time Olivia
thought: “Oh no, screw it: waste of ink, waste of paper”.
-Olivia Lloyd
Genre
-Historical fiction
Themes
-Feminism
-Politics
-Socialism
-Equality
-Emancipation
