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Old Baggage

Lissa Evans author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd

Published:27th Dec '18

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Old Baggage cover

Perfectly timed for the centenary of the women's vote in 2018, OLD BAGGAGE takes a unique approach to the suffragette story. Mattie was once a militant campaigner but now in middle age, she finds herself a purposeful woman without a purpose.

As featured on BBC Radio 4 Good Reads

'The work of a novelist in her prime' Daily Telegraph
'Wise and witty' Sarah Hughes, Observer
'Essential . . . Evans is a brilliant storyteller' Stylist
'A timely, bittersweet comic novel'Guardian
'A thoughtful, funny, companionable novel'Sunday Times
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What 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.

Wise and witty -- Sarah Hughes * Observer *
I loved Old Baggage. Such original characters, and so timely. And it made me weep at the end. -- JoJo Moyes
Utterly wonderful and intelligent -- India Knight * Sunday Times Magazine *
A timely, bittersweet comic novel * Guardian *
Old Baggage gives an inspiring model of womanhood. Moving, warm and wry. It is wonderful! -- Marian Keyes

ISBN: 9781784161217

Dimensions: 198mm x 127mm x 20mm

Weight: 230g

336 pages