Old Baggage

Descriere Old Baggage

____________________ \n \n Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Literature 2019 \n \n 'A timely, bittersweet comic novel' Guardian \n ____________________ \n \n What do you do next, after you've changed the world? \n \n 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. \n \n 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. \n \n 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. \n \n Old Baggage is a funny and bittersweet portrait of a woman who has never, never given up the fight. \n ____________________ \n \n 'Essential . . . Evans is a brilliant storyteller' Stylist \n

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Brand

BLACK SWAN

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ENSTK

EAN / GTIN

9781784161217

Magazine

1

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