Small pleasures : a novel / Clare Chambers.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780063094727
- ISBN: 9781474613903 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: 345 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Custom House, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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Subject: | Mothers and daughters > Fiction. Miracles > Fiction. Women journalists > Fiction. Triangles (Interpersonal relations) > Fiction. London (England) > History > 20th century > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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