When love enters Tranby Quirke's life in the form of Lysette McDonald, a beautiful 19-year-old student, Tranby embarks on the most remarkable journey of all.London: 1909. Thirty-four-year-old spinster and secret suffragette Tranby Quirke spends her days toiling in obscurity as a lecturer to modern women and spends her nights embarking on exotic foreign adventures—but only inside her head. Then love enters Tranby’s life in the most unexpected way and her real-life adventures take her on a journey beyond her imagination.