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020 _a9781785417443
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040 _aRDA
_cOCLC
041 _2E
082 _aLP EF EVAN
100 _aEvans, Lisa.
_9188087
245 _aOld bagage.
_cBy Lisa Evans.
260 _aLeicestershire;
_bISIS;
_c2019.
300 _a323 pages;
_bLarge Print;
_c23 cm.
520 _aIt 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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_cBOOK
_w174
_xSanet Schoeman
_y174
_zSanet Schoeman
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