Clare Chambers: Five Favourite Books Set in the Fifties
Clare Chambers has been longlisted for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction with Small Pleasures, about a bored local reporter...
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Longlisted for Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021
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.
Brit Bennett
Susanna Clarke
Claire Fuller
Yaa Gyasi
Cherie Jones
Patricia Lockwood
Brit Bennett
Clare Chambers
Susanna Clarke
Amanda Craig
Naoise Dolan
Avni Doshi
Dawn French
Claire Fuller
Yaa Gyasi
Cherie Jones
Raven Leilani
Patricia Lockwood
Annabel Lyon
Kathleen MacMahon
Torrey Peters
Ali Smith
Barbara Kingsolver
Ruth Ozeki
Susanna Clarke
Maggie O'Farrell
Tayari Jones
Kamila Shamsie
Naomi Alderman
Lisa McInerney
Ali Smith
Eimear McBride
A.M. Homes
Madeline Miller
Téa Obreht
Barbara Kingsolver
Marilynne Robinson
Rose Tremain
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Lionel Shriver
Andrea Levy
Valerie Martin
Ann Patchett
Kate Grenville
Linda Grant
Suzanne Berne
Carol Shields
Anne Michaels
Helen Dunmore
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