Blah Blah Book Club: November 2026 meetup

Please remember to send me your 3 (or 4 😀) nominations for next year's reading list - closing date for nominations is SUNDAY 25 October - yes, just 6 days away!! Thanks

This month, we will be reading and discussing Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers, longlisted for the 2021 Women's Prize, from our Open Choice category.

BLURB. 1957: Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper in the southeast suburbs of London. Clever but with limited career opportunities and on the brink of forty, Jean lives a dreary existence that includes caring for her demanding widowed mother, who rarely leaves the house. It’s a small life with little joy and no likelihood of escape. That all changes when a young woman contacts the paper to claim that her daughter is the result of a virgin birth. Jean seizes onto the bizarre story and sets out to discover whether Gretchen is a miracle or a fraud. (352 pages)

Happy reading!