Old baggage
Evans, Lissa2019
Large Print
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.
Main title:
Old baggage / Lissa Evans.
Author:
Evans, Lissa, author
Work:
Imprint:
Oxford : ISIS, 2019.
Collation:
330 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Standard print edition originally published: London: Doubleday, 2018.
ISBN:
9781785417382 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.9'2
Language:
English
BRN:
167966