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Small Pleasures

Small Pleasures

Clare Chambers
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In the best tradition of Tessa HadleyKazuo Ishiguro, and Ann Patchett - an astonishing, keenly observed period piece about an ordinary British woman in the 1950s whose dutiful life takes a sudden turn into a pitched battle between propriety and unexpected passion. 

"Chambers' eye for undemonstrative details achieves a Larkin-esque lucidity."  -  The Guardian 

1957, the suburbs of South East London. Jean Swinney is a journalist from a local paper, trapped in a life of duty and disappointment from which there is no likelihood of escape. When a young 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. 

As the investigation turns her quiet life inside out, Jean is suddenly given an unexpected chance at friendship, love and - possibly - happiness. But there will, inevitably, be a price to pay. 

"A very fine book... It's witty and sharp and reads like something by Barbara Pym or Anita Brookner, without ever feeling like a pastiche."  - David Nicholls 

Both a mystery and a love story, Small Pleasures is a quintessentially British novel in the style of The Remains of the Day, about the conflict between personal fulfilment and duty; a novel that celebrates the beauty and potential for joy in all things plain and unfashionable.

"Remarkable... Small Pleasures is no small pleasure."  -  The Times 

Year:
2020
Publisher:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Language:
english
Pages:
352
ISBN 10:
1474613896
ISBN 13:
9781474613897
Series:
Women's Prize For Fiction Longlist
File:
EPUB, 406 KB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2020
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