Janet Nicol is an author and educator whose work focuses on history and social justice and she is the author of On the Curve: The Life and Art of Sybil Andrews (Caitlin Press, 2019) as well as more than 400 articles published in magazines and journals. Her novel A Cause To Fight For (Heritage House $16.95) is set in World War I era British Columbia and follows fifteen-year-old Jess Goldie as she joins her sister in the women’s suffrage campaign in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant neighbourhood during the 1916 provincial referendum on women’s franchise while navigating family pressures, labour conditions in a steam laundry and differing views on women’s political rights among friends and community members as the suffrage movement and the Great War reshape her world. 9781772035988