Voting Day - Clare O'Dea
Author: Clare O'Dea Genre: Historical Fiction, Feminism Rating: 4.25 stars. In a Nutshell: A power-packed novella that delivers a lot of thought-provoking content within a few pages. Story: 1st February 1959. An ordinary Sunday almost everywhere. But for Switzerland, a day where the country’s future could be rewritten. This was the day Swiss men got to vote on whether Swiss women ought to get the right of suffrage. While the men were busy deciding the fate of this historic poll, what were the common Swiss women doing? We see this through the lives of four ordinary Swiss women: 👉 Vreni – A farmer’s hard-working wife who is due for a medical procedure but is worried to leave her work behind; 👉 Margrit – Vreni’s daughter who seems successful as an office worker in Bern but is battling a troublesome issue; 👉 Esther – A hospital cleaner who has singlehandedly faced financial and other troubles since many years and is desperate to reunite with her son; and 👉 Beatrice – The hospital a