{"product_id":"9781784161217","title":"Old Baggage","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Evans, Lissa\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFiction \u0026amp; related items\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 27 December 2018 by Transworld Publishers Ltd (Black Swan).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 336 pages\u003cbr\u003e163 x 127 x 22 | 234g\u003cp\u003eAs 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 TimesWhat 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMattie 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOld Baggage is a funny and bittersweet portrait of a woman who has never, never given up the fight.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Evans, Lissa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42538020208824,"sku":"9781784161217","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781784161217.jpg?v=1734713504","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781784161217","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}