Clare Chambers
Small Pleasures
Small Pleasures
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1957, south-east suburbs of London. Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper, caring for her truculent mother and, unmarried in her mid-thirties, considered a spinster of her parish. This limited existence of tedious chores and small pleasures is suddenly cracked open when a reporting assignment takes Jean into the intimate lives of the Tilburys.
Gretchen Tilbury has made the sensational claim that her daughter Margaret is the product of a virgin birth, and Jean is determined to uncover the truth. As the initial medical tests seem to confirm Gretchen’s version of events, Jean finds her own life becoming strangely, and not unpleasantly, intertwined with that of the Tilburys.
Both a mystery and a love story, Small Pleasures is a quintessentially British novel about the conflict between personal fulfilment and duty, celebrating the beauty and potential for joy in all things plain and unfashionable.
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