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Old baggage / Lissa Evans.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London, England : Doubleday, 2018.Description: 310 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780857523624 (cased) :
Subject(s): Summary: "It is 1928 and Matilda Simpkin, now in her late fifties, rooting through the boot cupboard, finds a small club in an old pair of galoshes. Giving it a thoughtful twirl she is finally struck by an idea. Mattie is a woman with a thrilling past and a chafingly uneventful present. During the Women's Suffrage Campaign, she marched, she sang and she heckled Winston Churchill. She was gaoled nine times. But she is still searching for a fresh mould into which she can pour her energies. Nothing - nothing - since then has had the same depth, the same level of excitement. After all, what do you do next after you've changed the world?"--Provided by publisher.
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Books Books Portsmouth Branch Library Fiction Hard Cover Fiction F Eva (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available PORT19072436
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"It is 1928 and Matilda Simpkin, now in her late fifties, rooting through the boot cupboard, finds a small club in an old pair of galoshes. Giving it a thoughtful twirl she is finally struck by an idea. Mattie is a woman with a thrilling past and a chafingly uneventful present. During the Women's Suffrage Campaign, she marched, she sang and she heckled Winston Churchill. She was gaoled nine times. But she is still searching for a fresh mould into which she can pour her energies. Nothing - nothing - since then has had the same depth, the same level of excitement. After all, what do you do next after you've changed the world?"--Provided by publisher.

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