My latest book
Jack and Eve: Two Suffragettes in Love and at War is published by Atlantic Books in the UK. It tells the story of Vera 'Jack' Holme and Evelina Haverfield, pioneering suffragettes who became lovers. Jack was an actress who specialised in cross-dressing roles. She became official chauffeur to suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst. Eve, who was born into the British aristocracy, was an intrepid traveller who became one of the suffragettes' most active speakers and agitators. In the First World War they went to Serbia with the Scottish Women's Hospitals (SWH), a women-only voluntary organisation, to provide medical aid to the Serbian Army. When Serbia was invaded they were taken prisoners of war. After being freed, they went to Russia with the SWH to drive ambulances on the Dobruja front. They were devoted lifelong partners and pioneers of new ways of living and loving. Jack enjoyed numerous liaisons with other women - detailed in her diaries - and especially favoured three-way relationships. But her undying loyalty was to Eve. Jack and Eve is a love story set against the backdrop of intense acts of bravery during the First World War.
Reviews for Endell Street
'Had Wendy Moore been writing a novel, she could hardly have invented more fabulous leading characters than Vera 'Jack' Holme and Evelina 'Eve' Haverfield or have set her narrative in a time of greater drama... In Moore's pacy narrative, their astonishing lives once again demonstrate not only how women could seize power for themselves, but also the value of their much-underestimated resources.'
Clare Mulley in the Literary Review
'The book is packed with feats of courage amid perilous conditions as the couple were held prisoner, then escaped and travelled through revolutionary Russia carrying smuggled documents. Events are described powerfully yet subtly, and there is no drama for its own sake.... Reading this book was like taking a cool shower after a hot day.'
Julie Bindel in The Spectator
'...richly researched' ... 'it is an invigorating and engaging tale, well fed by diaries and letters, and told with an unpretentious, straightforward energy of which the subjects themselves would approve.'
