Only knowing the general outlines of the suffragette movement in England and the names of the Pankhurst women, I thought this would be a good book to learn more about Sylvia, her mother Emmeline, and the movement. At over 900 pages, the book covers Sylvia's life, her politics, both in England and abroad, and I felt like every single page was more of a slog than it was worth. Author Rachel Holmes goes into extremely detailed sideline biographies about seemingly every person Sylvia ever meets. The flow of the book is often disjointed and Holmes seems to assume the reader already knows enough about Pankhurst to jump ahead or look back instead of following a timeline. The writing was often highly repetitious, the editing could have been better, and could certainly have made the book more readable.
Overall, I can't recommend this to someone just wanting to learn about Sylvia Pankhurst for the first time. Perhaps someone who already knows a good deal about her would enjoy the book more. I have to say, it has put me off wanting to try another biography of the Pankhursts for awhile, strictly because of how little I liked dealing with the writing of this book, which is a shame.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest view.