Old Baggage, Lissa Evans
Old Baggage, Lissa Evans
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Old Baggage
A Novel

Author: Lissa Evans

Narrator: Jane Copland

Unabridged: 8 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/16/2019


Synopsis

#1 UK Bestseller“A thoughtful, funny, companionable novel…executed with verve.”—London TimesThe 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.

About Lissa Evans

Lissa Evans has written internationally bestselling books for both adults and children, including Crooked Heart, Old Baggage, and Their Finest Hour and a Half, which was made into the feature film Their Finest. Her books have twice been longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She lives in London with her family.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer ~ TarHeelReader on April 12, 2019

I really enjoyed this character study! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Matilda Simpkin is living in 1928 London. She’s found a wooden club, something she hasn’t seen for a while, and along with it comes the memories she associates with that item. You see, Mattie was a suffragette years earlier. She was jailed five time......more

Goodreads review by Louise on August 18, 2020

It's 1928. Matilda Simpkin, rooting through a cupboard, comes across an old wooden club - an old possession of hers, unseen for more than a decade. Mattie (Matilda) was a militant during the Women's Suffrage Campaign. She has given speeches, marched, smashed windows, she's even heckled Winston Church......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer (Insert Lit Pun) on April 08, 2019

An utterly charming, substantive, and emotionally textured novel......more

Goodreads review by Kate on June 13, 2018

I've finished Old Baggage and I am bereft! This is beautiful, beautiful writing with characters that live and breathe. I loved Mattie in Crooked Heart. How wonderful to spend more time with her. I just hope we meet her again. This is a gorgeous, warm novel and I can't recommend it enough. Review to......more

Goodreads review by Britta on January 23, 2019

I enjoyed the setting, the characters and the historical references (suffragette movement), but the plot didn't quite do it for me.......more