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Can I read Small Pleasures: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 on EtoBox?
Small Pleasures: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 by Clare Chambers is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Small Pleasures: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 about?
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. "Chambers' eye for undemonstrative details achieves a Larkin-esque lucidity." - The Guardian 1957, the suburbs of South East London. Jean Swinney is a journalist from 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. "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 Both a mystery and a love story, Small Pleasures is a quintessentially British novel in the style of The Remains of the Day
Who reads Small Pleasures: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Clare Chambers
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781474613910
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Romance, Historical Romance, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (18,976 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
