Old baggage, Lissa Evans
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Old baggage, Lissa Evans
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eng
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Adult
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Old baggage
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Lissa Evans
Summary
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..
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