Old Baggage is a funny and bittersweet portrait of a woman who has never, never given up the fight.
Lissa Evans has written books for both adults and children, including Their Finest Hour and a Half, longlisted for the Orange Prize, Small Change for Stuart, shortlisted for many awards including the Carnegie Medal and the Costa Book Awards and Crooked Heart, longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.
Wise and witty
*Observer*
I loved Old Baggage. Such original characters, and so timely. And
it made me weep at the end.
*JoJo Moyes*
Utterly wonderful and intelligent
*Sunday Times Magazine*
A timely, bittersweet comic novel
*Guardian*
Old Baggage gives an inspiring model of womanhood. Moving, warm and
wry. It is wonderful!
*Marian Keyes*
This beautifully written story teems with atmosphere and perfect
period detail but it’s the brave and brilliant Mattie that makes it
unforgettable
*Sunday Mirror*
Essential . . . Evans is a brilliant storyteller
*Stylist*
Lissa Evans’s gift for comedy edged with satire and pathos is
God-given . . . Mattie’s search for meaning and purpose, which
hints at the darker undercurrents of people marginalised by their
sex and era, will strike a chord with most.
*Daily Mail*
A thoughtful, funny, companionable novel, offering an
invigoratingly fresh vantage on a well-trodden period
*Sunday Times*
Lissa Evans writes with beguiling wit and vigour. I found myself
utterly involved with her heroines, and the history is spot-on.
*Jane Robinson, author of HEARTS AND MINDS*
A perfectly pitched, captivating read
*Mail on Sunday*
Joyously funny, much poignancy and social commentary. old Baggage
is a gloriously entertaining, deeply moving novel.
*S Magazine*
“wonderfully rich tale about a clever, lovably nonconformist
heroine”
*Culture, The Sunday Times*
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