THE EIGHTS with JOANNA MILLER 
The Library
3pm

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Our second event of the weekend over at the library and we’re delighted to welcome very special guest, Joanna Miller to discuss her debut novel, The Eights. This event is proudly presented in association with the library, hosted by Frances Tipper and part of the National Year of Reading 2026 campaign.

‘I came to love the four as they were my sisters’ Tracy Chevalier

Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its 1,000-year history, the world’s most famous university has admitted female students. Giddy with dreams of equality, education and emancipation, four young women move into neighbouring rooms on Corridor Eight and find themselves thrust into an unlikely, life-affirming friendship. They have come here from all walks of life, but Dora, Beatrice, Otto and Marianne all long to move on from the Great War, whose ghosts, grief, and secrets still feel very real indeed.

But Oxford is a place caught between tradition and change, where centuries of misogyny and exclusion clash with the promise of new freedoms. And as the group navigate this tumultuous moment in time under the city’s dreaming spires, their friendship will become more important than ever.