Jean is assigned to write a feature about Gretchen, a Swiss woman who claims her daughter is the result of a virgin birth. Though she's around 40 years old she still lives with her mother whose cantankerous and overbearing manner leaves little room for Jean to have a personal life. Set in the late 1950s it follows Jean, a journalist at a local paper in the suburbs of London. Jean is assigned to write a If you hate the ending of a novel after really enjoying the majority of the story is it still a successful reading experience? It's a tricky question and one I've been left pondering after finishing “Small Pleasures”. If you hate the ending of a novel after really enjoying the majority of the story is it still a successful reading experience? It's a tricky question and one I've been left pondering after finishing “Small Pleasures”. Regardless, I still think this is an enjoyable story and worth reading, as the prose and descriptions of ordinary, domestic life are exquisite.more If the significance of the final chapter has to be explained in an Afterword, maybe it wasn’t very well thought-out in the first instance. Small Pleasures had the most absurd (and unnecessary?) ending to a book I’ve ever read - it was almost as if the final chapter belonged to an entirely different novel altogether. Regardless, I still think this is an enjoyable story and worth reading, as the prose and descriptions of ordinary, domest Such a tender, beautiful, and light novel. Such a tender, beautiful, and light novel. And yet Jean cannot bring herself to discard the chance of finally having a taste of happiness.īut there will be a price to pay, and it will be unbearable.more And Jean doesn't mean to fall in love with Gretchen's husband, Howard, but Howard surprises her with his dry wit, his intelligence and his kindness - and when she does fall, she falls hard.īut he is married, and to her friend - who is also the subject of the story she is researching for the newspaper, a story that increasingly seems to be causing dark ripples across all their lives.
But the more Jean investigates, the more her life becomes strangely (and not unpleasantly) intertwined with that of the Tilburys: Gretchen is now a friend, and her quirky and charming daughter Margaret a sort of surrogate child. When a young Swiss 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. Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper, disappointed in love and - on the brink of forty - living a limited existence with her truculent mother: a small life from which there is no likelihood of escape.
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