Name: PEQUEÑOS PLACERES (in Spanish)
Price: 27.55 EUR
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Author: Clare Chambers
ISBN: 9789878289922

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Physical Book

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Clare Chambers

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PLATA

Synopsis "PEQUEÑOS PLACERES (in Spanish)"

1957, en las afueras de Londres. Jean Swinney es redactora de crónicas y reportajes en un periódico local, está desengañada en el amor y, a punto de cumplir los cuarenta, lleva una vida limitada con su malhumorada y demandante madre. Cuando una joven suiza, Gretchen Tilbury, contacta con el periódico afirmando que su hija es fruto de una concepción virginal, le corresponde a Jean descubrir si se trata de un milagro o de un fraude. Sin embargo, cuanto más indaga sobre el tema, más se entrelaza su existencia (de una manera extraña, aunque no desagradable) con la vida de los Tilbury: la propia Gretchen, su marido, Howard, y su encantadora hija Margaret. No obstante, ellos son el centro de los hechos que Jean está investigando para el periódico; una historia que parece propagar cada vez más vibraciones oscuras en sus vidas. Y, aun así, Jean no se atreve a descartar la posibilidad de probar por fin las mieles de la felicidad. Pero habrá un precio que pagar, y será insoportable. «El ojo de Chambers para los detalles inexpresivos alcanza una lucidez larkinesca… Ambientada en la Gran Bretaña de la posguerra, es una historia llena de compasión y un talante tranquilo». The Guardian «Pequeños placeres no es

Clare Chambers

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Clare Chambers, born in 1966 in Croydon, England, is a British novelist known for her contemporary and romantic fiction works. She studied English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford, and wrote her first novel, Uncertain Terms (1992), during a stay in New Zealand. Among her most notable works are Learning to Swim (1998), which won the Best Novel award from the Romantic Novelists' Association, In a Good Light (2004), and The Editor's Wife (2007). She has also ventured into young adult literature with titles like Bright Girls (2009) and Burning Secrets (2011).

Her most recognized novel, Small Pleasures (2020), set in 1950s England, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2021 and won the Pageturner Book of the Year at the British Book Awards in 2022. In 2024, she published Shy Creatures, a novel set in a 1960s psychiatric hospital, which received praise for its prose and emotional depth. Chambers lives in Southeast London with her husband and continues to explore the complexities of British suburban life through her writing.

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