Old Baggage

Author: Lissa Evans

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  • : $26.00 NZD
  • : 9781784161217
  • : Transworld Publishers Limited
  • : Black Swan
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  • : November 2018
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  • : Lissa Evans
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  • : Paperback
  • : 1901
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  • : English
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'Essential . . . Evans is a brilliant storyteller' StylistWhat do you do next, after you?ve changed the world?It is 1928. Matilda Simpkin, rooting through a cupboard, comes across a small wooden club - an old possession of hers, unseen for more than a decade.Mattie is a woman with a thrilling past and a chafingly uneventful present. During the Women?s Suffrage Campaign she was a militant. Jailed five times, she marched, sang, gave speeches, smashed windows and heckled Winston Churchill, and nothing - nothing - since then has had the same depth, the same excitement.Now in middle age, she is still looking for a fresh mould into which to pour her energies. Giving the wooden club a thoughtful twirl, she is struck by an idea - but what starts as a brilliantly idealistic plan is derailed by a connection with Mattie?s militant past, one which begins to threaten every principle that she stands for.Old Baggage is a funny and bittersweet portrait of a woman who has never, never given up the fight.