With her last novel, Small Pleasures, Clare Chambers experienced the sort of quiet success story that gladdens the heart. With her eight previous books mostly out of print, and having not published in a decade, Chambers considered Small Pleasures a last roll of the dice. She spun the literary equivalent of double sixes, producing a tender tale about a female journalist in 1950s south London suburbia that captured readers’ hearts and became a huge word-of-mouth hit.

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