Small Pleasures
By : Clare Chambers

Book Synopsis :
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
Book Detail :
Author : Clare Chambers
Pages : 352 pages
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 51475209
ISBN-13 : 9781474613880
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