8 notable books with strong female leads and characters

Since time immemorial, women have been in one of the most ‘backward’ sections of society. From real-life to books and literature, they were rarely ever the main leads or the ones to save a distressed man. And so, here are 8 notable books with strong female characters. #notable #books #strong #female #leads #characters

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In a city torn apart by war, an enemy soldier shatters Joseph Haydn’s isolation - and quells his loneliness. David Suchet narrates a moment of unexpected beauty amidst the decay.

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Don Warrington tells a story of a remarkable rebirth, as a down-on-his-luck Duke Ellington spontaneously and joyously sparks his band into life at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival.

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Andrew Lincoln tells the story of how Mozart’s passionate love (and lust) for his future wife drove him to escape the clutches of boyhood expectation - and his controlling father.

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Maxine Peake tells the story of how Dame Ethel Smyth’s anthem for equality, March of the Women, propelled the Suffragettes to victory, despite her arrest and imprisonment.

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Toby Jones tells how an act of creative destruction freed Sibelius - Finland’s most celebrated artist - from decades of torment, as he tried to finish his doomed Eighth Symphony.

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Kit Harington narrates how Rachmaninov - Russian music’s brightest star - was floored by paralysing writer’s block… and how through therapy he overcame it to create a masterpiece.

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