It's 100 years since women were first allowed to vote in the UK. What does that mean? What do women contribute today? How is their voice heard?

The editor of this anthology, the writer Miranda Roszkowski first launched a podcast in February 2018 to listen to women, inviting them to share the achievements in their lives. It was very warmly received and this book is a compilation of those contributions, and more. She says that it is "400 pages of inspiration".

Each contribution is brief and warmly and engagingly written. It's as if you're picking up letters from friends, or friends of friends. And the short biographies of the contributor are intriguing and warrant further investigation.

There is a strong creative bent in the contributions with the writers urging us to stop procrastinating and express ourselves, too, in poems, songs, plays, novels or memoirs. There are also very personal observations on motherhood, relationships, abuse. Some of the contributors explain the projects they've launched - for example From Me to You which encourages people to write letters to people living with cancer.

But we're also encouraged to to make lemon curd or learn to ride a motorcycle, if we fancy it. And we are reminded to walk more for our physical and mental health, or to run, and not be daunted: take one step, then three steps, then ten "and someday maybe you can run a marathon. And if you can run a marathon, you can do anything."

This is a great book for dipping into, or reading in one long gulp. There'll be occasions where it will make you smile, other times you might weep, and perhaps it'll encourage you to start something new.