A Dry Spell, Chambers, Clare

Автор: Chambers, Clare
Название: Small Pleasures
ISBN: 147461390X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474613903
Издательство: Orion
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Описание: A novel of unexpected second chances set in 1950s England.

Автор: Clare Chambers
Название: Bright girl
ISBN: 0007307276 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007307272
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: Outstanding new voice in girls' fiction. Fifteen-year-old Robyn (the "sensible") one and her older sister Rachel (anything but!) arrive in Brighton to spend the summer with their estranged Aunt Jackie, who runs a ballgown hire business from her ramshackle multi-storey home. They have been forced to leave their home in Oxford, where they live with their father, because of threats to their safety, the nature of which only gradually becomes apparent.

A perfect summer read and a brilliant study of sisterly devotion and rivalry, coupled with a frisson of mystery and a wonderful dollop of humour.

Автор: Chambers, Clare
Название: Editor`s wife
ISBN: 0099469324 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099469322
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: When aspiring novelist Christopher Flinders drops out of university to write his masterpiece (in between shifts as a fish delivery man and builder`s mate), his family is sceptical. But when he is taken up by the London editor Owen Goddard and his charming wife Diana it seems success is just around the corner.

Автор: Chambers, Clare
Название: In a good light
ISBN: 0099469189 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099469186
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Memories she had long chosen to forget begin to resurface. Memories of an eccentric childhood in a large and shabby house, where the children were very much left to fend for themselves within the loose boundaries of their parents` unorthodox values. A chaotic existence peopled by a rich collection of feckless `guests`.

Автор: Chambers, Clare
Название: Small Pleasures
ISBN: 1474613888 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474613880
Издательство: Orion
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Описание: With the emotional intelligence of Maggie O`Farrell and the witty observational skills of Kate Atkinson, this is a novel of unexpected second chances set in 1950s England.

Автор: Chambers Clare
Название: Small Pleasures
ISBN: 006309472X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780063094727
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
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Now available in the US--the dark horse literary novel that has taken Britain by storm! 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.

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK: Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times Ireland, Daily Express

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 the brink of forty, Jean lives a dreary existence that includes caring for her demanding widowed mother, who rarely leaves the house. It's a small life with little joy and no likelihood of escape.

That all changes when a young woman, Gretchen Tilbury, contacts the paper to claim that her daughter is the result of a virgin birth. Jean seizes onto the bizarre story and sets out to discover whether Gretchen 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, including Gretchen's gentle and thoughtful husband Howard, who mostly believes his wife, and their quirky and charming daughter Margaret, who becomes a sort of surrogate child for Jean. Gretchen, too, becomes a much-needed friend in an otherwise empty social life.

Jean cannot bring herself to discard what seems like her one chance at happiness, even as the story that she is researching starts to send dark ripples across all their lives...with unimaginable consequences.

Both a mystery and a love story, Small Pleasures is a literary tour-de-force in the style of The Remains of the Day, about conflict between personal fulfillment and duty; a novel that celebrates the beauty and potential for joy in all things plain and unfashionable.

Автор: Chambers, Clare
Название: Back Trouble
ISBN: 0099414562 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099414568
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: From the highly-acclaimed author of SMALL PLEASURES - longlisted for the Women`s Prize for Fiction 2021On the brink of forty, newly single with a failed business, Philip thought he`d reached an all-time low. It only needed a discarded chip on a South London street to lay him literally flat.

Автор: Chambers, Clare
Название: Burning secrets
ISBN: 0007307284 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007307289
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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An intense and thrilling teen mystery set on a tranquil island where all seems perfect...

Daniel has dark secrets and a troubled past. So when his family move to the island of Wragge, a gentle backwater where local life remains undisturbed he feels he's escaped.
But outsiders aren't always welcome and the more Daniel tries to conceal, the more he reveals about sinister goings on. Does this picture perfect community have something even greater to hide?

An explosive thriller that tingles with brooding menace and ignites as the clues fall into place...

Автор: Chambers, Clare
Название: Small Pleasures
ISBN: 1474613896 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474613897
Издательство: Orion
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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021

'A WORD-OF-MOUTH HIT' Evening Standard

'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

'Perfect'
India Knight

'Beautiful'
Jessie Burton

'Wonderful'
Richard Osman

'Miraculous'
Tracy Chevalier

'A wonderful novel. I loved it'
Nina Stibbe

'Effortless to read, but every sentence lingers in the mind'
Lissa Evans

'This is one of the most beautiful books I have ever read.

I honestly don't want you to be without it'
Lucy Mangan

'Gorgeous... If you're looking for something escapist and bittersweet, I could not recommend more'
Pandora Sykes

'Remarkable... Small Pleasures is no small pleasure'
The Times

'An irresistible novel - wry, perceptive and quietly devastating'
Mail on Sunday

'Chambers' eye for undemonstrative details achieves a Larkin-esque lucidity'
Guardian

'An almost flawlessly written tale of genuine, grown-up romantic anguish'
The Sunday Times

1957, the suburbs of South East London.

Jean Swinney is a journalist on 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.

Book of the Year for: The Times, Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard, Daily Express, Metro, Spectator, Red Magazine and Good Housekeeping