Old baggage

Lissa Evans

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.

Author(s): Evans, Lissa
Binding: Paperback
Date of Publication: 27/12/2018
Pagination: 324 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Black Swan
Published By: Black Swan
Book Classification: Second World War fiction|Historical adventure fiction|Narrative theme: Politics|Narrative theme: Sense of place|Narrative theme: Social issues|Fiction: general & literary
Dimensions: 198x127x21
Weight: 235
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781784161217