Name: Small Pleasures: Longlisted for the Women'S Prize for Fiction 2021
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Author: Clare Chambers
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Small Pleasures: Longlisted for the Women'S Prize for Fiction 2021

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Physical Book

Author

Clare Chambers

Publisher

W&N

Year

2021

Language

English

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781474613903

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Small Pleasures: Longlisted for the Women'S Prize for Fiction 2021

Clare Chambers (Author) · W&N · Paperback

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Synopsis "Small Pleasures: Longlisted for the Women'S Prize for Fiction 2021 "

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021'A WORD-OF-MOUTH HIT' Evening Standard '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'Perfect'India Knight 'Beautiful' Jessie Burton'Wonderful'Richard Osman 'Miraculous'Tracy Chevalier 'A wonderful novel. I loved it'Nina Stibbe 'Effortless to read, but every sentence lingers in the mind' Lissa Evans 'This is one of the most beautiful books I have ever read. I honestly don't want you to be without it'Lucy Mangan'Gorgeous... If you're looking for something escapist and bittersweet, I could not recommend more' Pandora Sykes'Remarkable... Small Pleasures is no small pleasure'The Times'An irresistible novel - wry, perceptive and quietly devastating'Mail on Sunday'Chambers' eye for undemonstrative details achieves a Larkin-esque lucidity' Guardian'An almost flawlessly written tale of genuine, grown-up romantic anguish' The Sunday Times 1957, the suburbs of South East London. Jean Swinney is a journalist on 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.Book of the Year for: The Times, Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard, Daily Express, Metro, Spectator, Red Magazine and Good Housekeeping

Clare Chambers

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Clare Chambers, born in 1966 in Croydon, England, is a British novelist known for her contemporary and romantic fiction works. She studied English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford, and wrote her first novel, Uncertain Terms (1992), during a stay in New Zealand. Among her most notable works are Learning to Swim (1998), which won the Best Novel award from the Romantic Novelists' Association, In a Good Light (2004), and The Editor's Wife (2007). She has also ventured into young adult literature with titles like Bright Girls (2009) and Burning Secrets (2011).

Her most recognized novel, Small Pleasures (2020), set in 1950s England, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2021 and won the Pageturner Book of the Year at the British Book Awards in 2022. In 2024, she published Shy Creatures, a novel set in a 1960s psychiatric hospital, which received praise for its prose and emotional depth. Chambers lives in Southeast London with her husband and continues to explore the complexities of British suburban life through her writing.

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