TY - BOOK AU - Chambers,Clare TI - Small pleasures SN - 9781474613903 (pbk.) : AV - PR6103 PY - 2021/// CY - London PB - Weidenfeld & Nicolson KW - London (England) KW - History KW - 1951- KW - Fiction KW - General Fiction N1 - Originally published: 2020 N2 - 1957, south-east suburbs of London. Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper, disappointed in love and - on the brink of 40 - 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 ER -