Small Pleasures - Clare Chambers
Small Pleasures - Clare Chambers
Shortlisted for The British Book Awards 2022 Pageturner Book of the Year
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021
1957, south-east suburbs of London.
Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper, disappointed in love and - on the brink of forty - living a limited existence with her truculent mother.
When a young Swiss woman, Gretchen Tilbury, contacts the paper to claim that her daughter is the result of a virgin birth, it is down to Jean to discover whether she is a miracle or a fraud.
But the more she investigates, the more her life becomes strangely (and not unpleasantly) intertwined with that of the Tilburys: Gretchen herself, her husband Howard - with his dry wit and gentle disposition - and her charming daughter Margaret.
But they are the subject of the story Jean is researching for the newspaper, a story that increasingly seems to be causing dark ripples across all their lives. And yet Jean cannot bring herself to discard the chance of finally having a taste of happiness.
But there will be a price to pay - and it will be unbearable.
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Binding: Hardback
Number of Pages: 345
Year Published: 2020
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9781474613880
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