Small Pleasures, Clare Chambers ceramics impossible to put down

impossible to put down

From the writer whose blog draws two million readers a month and filled with entertaining stories and profane

violent afternoons

cold-blooded murder

But beneath the surface

Small Pleasures, Clare Chambers ceramics impossible to put down1957, 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