Small Pleasures

***Out now: Clare Chambers''s new novel Shy Creatures***

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR FICTION
A BBC 2 ''BETWEEN THE COVERS'' BOOK CLUB PICK

''Wonderful'' RICHARD OSMAN
''Perfect'' INDIA KNIGHT
''Beautiful'' JESSIE BURTON
''Witty and sharp'' DAVID NICHOLLS

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 wh...