Florrie, a young girl tiring of her privileged upbringing, and yearning for a taste of the real world outside her small village, embarks upon an exciting new life as part of the Suffragette movement in London. With a degree of feistiness and intelligence unusual for a woman of her age, she soon finds herself taking risks she never imagined and paying the price when she is caught. This in itself could be an intriguing and self-contained story, but it is only part of the adventure in this book, as before the movement can make much real headway, war breaks out and things immediately change. With her underage brother volunteering to head to the continent, Florrie is determined to do her part to help him and the other troops putting their lives in danger, and volunteers as a nurse, quickly finding herself stationed in the thick of things in France.