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'Wise and witty' Sarah Hughes, Observer 'Essential . . . Evans is a brilliant storyteller' Stylist 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.
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Lissa Evans has written books for both adults and children, including Their Finest Hour and a Half, longlisted for the Orange Prize, Small Change for Stuart, shortlisted for many awards including the Carnegie Medal and the Costa Book Awards and Crooked Heart, longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.
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"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 "Old Baggage gives an inspiring model of womanhood. Moving, warm and wry. It is wonderful!" -- Marian Keyes "Essential . . . Evans is a brilliant storyteller" * Stylist * "Lissa Evans's gift for comedy edged with satire and pathos is God-given . . . Mattie's search for meaning and purpose, which hints at the darker undercurrents of people marginalised by their sex and era, will strike a chord with most." -- Elizabeth Buchan * Daily Mail *
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- PublisherMacdonald
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0857523627
- ISBN 13 9780857523624
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
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