After seventeen-year-old Victoria Darling poses nude for her art class, she is expelled from her French finishing school and shipped back home. Torn from the artist community she was making a place for herself in, Vicky feels adrift. Shamed and scandalized, her parents quickly arrange a marriage between her and Edmund Carrick-Humphrey. But Vicky isn't the type of girl to allow society to hold her back. She plans to soon count herself amongst the Royal College of Art alumni. With a working class boy as her muse and suffragettes urging her to join their cause, Vicky will have to decide how much she's willing to sacrifice in pursuit of her dreams. 
 I loved this book. I couldn't put it down. Sometimes you run into a MC who speaks to you so completely. Vicky is one of those MCs for me. She isn't perfect. She has her flaws. She speaks before she thinks and sometimes people get hurt in the process, but she is also caring and passionate and I am just in love with her spirit and tenacity. Sharon Biggs Waller does an amazing job weaving together the history of the women's suffrage movement in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, and the changing times of Victoria Darling's London. It never feels bogged down by the facts that it presents and there is a lot of information packed into this story. 
 A great coming of age story with the perfect amount of romance and history.