Old baggage / Lissa Evans.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa: London : Transworld Publishers, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Whakaahuatanga: 310 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780857523624
- 823.92 23
Momo tuemi | Tauwāhi onāianei | Kohinga | Tau karanga | Tūnga | Rā oti | Waeherepae | Ngā puringa tuemi | |
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Fiction | Waverley LibraryPlus Fiction | Fiction | EVAN (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | i2200881 |
"What do you do next, after you've changed the world?" -- front cover.
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. 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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