Clare Chambers talks to James Naughtie and readers about her bestselling novel, Small Pleasures. Set in the London suburbs in the 1950s, it tells the story of Jean Swinney, a journalist who is asked to investigate a letter sent to her paper, from a mother claiming her daughter is the result of a virgin birth. Jean meets the mother, Gretchen; her husband, Howard and daughter Margaret and is drawn into their family life. Her investigations soon expand both her world, and her heart.
Upcoming recordings, at BBC Broadcasting House in London:
Wednesday 24 April at 1800 - Nicholas Shakespeare on Six Minutes In May
Wednesday 15 May at 1300 - Lucy Caldwell on These Days.
Thursday 6 June at 1245 - Marlon James on A Brief History of Seven Killings
Wednesday 10 July at 1830 - Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ on Stay With Me
Email bookclub@bbc.co.uk to take part. Over 18s only.
Nicholas Shakespeare: Six Minutes in May
Ann Cleeves: Hidden Depths
Graeme Macrae Burnet: His Bloody Project
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, with Elly Griffiths
Donal Ryan: The Spinning Heart
Katherine Heiny: Standard Deviation
Bernardine Evaristo: Mr Loverman
Denise Mina: The Long Drop
Mick Herron: Slow Horses
Julian Barnes: Arthur and George
Mary Lawson: Crow Lake
Sarah Winman: Tin Man
Tan Twan Eng: The Garden of Evening Mists
Nadifa Mohamed: The Fortune Men
Cal Flyn: Islands of Abandonment
Ross King: Brunelleschi's Dome
AJ Pearce: Dear Mrs Bird
Juan Gabriel Vasquez: The Sound of Things Falling
Curtis Sittenfeld: American Wife
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