Small Pleasures1957, south east suburbs of London. Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper, disappointed in love and on the brink of 40 living a limited existence with her truculent mother: a small life from which there is no likelihood of escape. 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. But the more Jean

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