Small pleasures

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'The 21st century heir to Jane Austen, Barbara Pym and Elizabeth Taylor' Amanda Craig, author of The Lie of the Land

'Will draw you in from the first page and keep you gripped until the very end' Ruth Hogan, author of The Keeper of Lost Things

**'**I adored Small Pleasures: you want to race on and relish every sentence at the same time' Sabine Durrant, author of Lie With Me


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: a small life from which there is no likelihood of escape.


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 Jean investigates, the more her life becomes strangely (and not unpleasantly) intertwined with that of the Tilburys: Gretchen is now a friend, and her quirky and charming daughter Margaret a sort of surrogate child. And Jean doesn't mean to fall in love with Gretchen's husband, Howard, but Howard surprises her with his dry wit, his intelligence and his kindness - and when she does fall, she falls hard.


But he is married, and to her friend - who is also the subject of the story she 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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Small Pleasures

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In the best tradition of tessa hadley kazuo 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 with wit and dry humor quietly Uiterlijk 17 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

Small Pleasures

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A novel of unexpected second chances set in 1950s england pre order shy creatures the unforgettable new novel about love family and freedom from award winning author of small pleasures clare chamberscoming august 2024 longlisted for the women s prize for fictiona bbc 2 between the covers book Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 uur besteld, dinsdag in huis .. MEER INFO

The Mountain in the Sea

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i loved this novel s brain and heart david mitchell author of cloud atlas a first rate speculative thriller by turns fascinating brutal powerful and redemptive jeff vandermeer author of annihilation there are creatures in the water of con dao to the locals they re monsters to the corpor Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: E-book

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 09 juli 2020

Ebook Formaat: Adobe ePub

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Hoofdauteur: Clare Chambers

Hoofduitgeverij: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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EAN: 9781474613910

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