As featured on BBC Radio 4 Good Reads The work of a novelist in her prime Daily TelegraphWise and witty Sarah Hughes ObserverEssential . . . Evans is a brilliant storyteller StylistA timely bittersweet comic novel GuardianA thoughtful funny companionable novel Sunday TimesWhat do you do next after youve changed the worldIt 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 Womens 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 Matties militant past one which begins to threaten every principle that she stands for.Old Baggage is a funny and bittersweet portrait of a woman who has never never given up the fight.