Dall'acclamata autrice di SMALL PLEASURES - nella longlist per il Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 Sulla soglia dei quarant'anni, appena single con un'attività fallita, Philip pensava di aver toccato il fondo. Gli è bastato un chip scartato in una strada del sud di Londra per stenderlo letteralmente a terra. Così, costretto a letto e annoiato, Philip inizia naturalmente a scrivere la storia della sua vita. Ma tra il banale catalogo di vacanze al mare e il fai da te pasticciato, relazioni interrotte e verità inespresse, vengono rivelate più sorprese, sia comiche che toccanti, di quante Philip o la sua famiglia avessero mai previsto. Forse anche un lieto fine. Elogi a Clare Chambers: ''Intelligente, astuta e molto divertente'' Daily Mail ''Splendido. Se cercate qualcosa di evasivo e agrodolce, non potrei consigliarvelo di più'' Pandora Sykes su SMALL PLEASURES ''L'attenzione di Chambers per i dettagli poco appariscenti raggiunge una lucidità alla Larkin'' Guardian ''Una storia divertente e commovente con molto stile'' Daily Express.
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Clare Chambers was born in south east London in 1966. She studied English at Oxford and spent the year after graduating in New Zealand, where she wrote her first novel, Uncertain Terms, published when she was 25. She has since written eight further novels, including Learning to Swim (Century 1998) which won the Romantic Novelists' Association best novel award and was adapted as a Radio 4 play, and In a Good Light (Century 2004) which was longlisted for the Whitbread best novel prize.
Clare began her career as a secretary at the publisher André Deutsch, when Diana Athill was still at the helm. They not only published her first novel, but made her type her own contract. In due course she went on to become a fiction and non-fiction editor there herself, until leaving to raise a family and concentrate on her own writing. Some of the experiences of working for an eccentric, independent publisher in the pre-digital era found their way into her novel The Editor's Wife (Century, 2007). When her three children were teenagers, inspired by their reading habits, she produced two YA novels, Bright Girls (HarperCollins 2009) and Burning Secrets (HarperCollins 2011).
Her most recent novel is Small Pleasures (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020).
She takes up a post as Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Kent in September 2020.
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