# Old Baggage

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- Book: [Old Baggage](https://www.bookquiver.com/lissa-evans/old-baggage) ([Old Baggage.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/lissa-evans/old-baggage.md))
- Authors: [Lissa Evans](https://www.bookquiver.com/lissa-evans)
- Publisher: Black Swan
- ISBN: 978-17-8416-121-7
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2018-12-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 _______________________________ 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.