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CLARE CHAMBERS - GEBRAUCHT SMALL PLEASURES THE ...

The 21st century heir to Jane Austen  Barbara Pym and Elizabeth Taylor  Small Pleasures is both
gripping and a huge delight' Amanda Craig  author of The Lie of the Land 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 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 

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