Her Majesty’s League of Remarkable Young Ladies

It’s March 1889 and Queen Victoria has a stalker. Someone is sending threatening messages and foiling the efforts of Her Majesty’s security personnel. This is most definitely a job for the League of Remarkable Young Ladies: a top-secret team of female agents designing and building the tools of espionage.

Meanwhile, Winifred is a pupil at the Beacon Academy for Poised and Polished Young Ladies where she is learning how to alight from a carriage with modesty and grace rather than pursuing her passion for inventing and engineering.

When the threat to the queen escalates, Winnie, who has already invented some ingenious gadgets, is recruited to the League. But she only agrees to join on condition they help her track down her father, also an inventor, who is on the run having been accused of fraud.  

At a time when young women were expected to aspire to lives as wives, mothers and homemakers, all Winnie wants is a well-equipped laboratory and an endless supply of exciting projects. And she’s not the only one.

Set against a backdrop of increasing protest from women wanting more choices and of rapid technological change, this is a fun and fascinating tale of intrigue and sisterhood.