Small Pleasures: A Novel

By: Clare Chambers Fiction Paperback HarperCollins Publishers/Mariner Books 343 Pages This book it part of our “Books for Good” program which donates 10% of this purchase to charity. It may have slight shelf wear and will have a discreet marking on the edge of the pages. Learn more about the “Books for Good” program here.   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 affecting in unexpected ways. Chambers' language is beautiful, achieving what only the most skilled writers can: big pleasure wrought from small details."—The New York Times LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 1957: Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper in the southeast suburbs of London. Clever but with limited career opportunities and on