#1 UK Bestseller “A thoughtful, funny, companionable
novel…executed with verve.”—London Times The author of the
acclaimed Crooked Heart returns with a comic, charming, and
surprisingly timely portrait of a once pioneering suffragette trying
to find her new passion in post-WWI era London. 1928. Riffling through
a cupboard, Matilda Simpkin comes across a small wooden club—an old
possession that she hasn’t seen for more than a decade. Immediately,
memories come flooding back to Mattie—memories of a thrilling past,
which only further serve to remind her of her chafingly uneventful
present. During the Women's Suffrage Campaign, she was a militant who
was jailed five times and never missed an opportunity to return to the
fray. Now in middle age, the closest she gets to the excitement of her
old life is the occasional lecture on the legacy of the militant
movement. After running into an old suffragette comrade who has
committed herself to the wave of Fascism, Mattie realizes there is a
new cause she needs to fight for and turns her focus to a new
generation of women. Thus the Amazons are formed, a group created to
give girls a place to not only exercise their bodies but their minds,
and ignite in young women a much-needed interest in the world around
them. But when a new girl joins the group, sending Mattie’s past
crashing into her present, every principle Mattie has ever stood for
is threatened. Old Baggage is a funny and bittersweet portrait of a
woman who has never given up the fight and the young women who are
just discovering it.
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ISBN
9780062895455
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
Harper Perennial
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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