Clare Chambers 4 Books Collection Set

by Clare Chambers

Please  Note The individual books included in this listing will be dispatched as per  the original UK ISBN and UK edition cover image shown—are included in the   Clare Chambers 4 Books Collection Set (Shy Creatures,  Small Pleasures, Learning To  Swim & In A Good  Light):





📚 Books in This



Shy Creatures





Small Pleasures





Learning To  Swim





In A Good  Light

 





Shy   
Croydon, 1964. Art therapist  Helen Hansford is working in a psychiatric hospital, where she has been  having passionate but precarious affair with her married colleague, the  charismatic Dr Gil Rudden. Helen's structured life is upended when William  Tapping - a silent, thirty-seven-year-old man with a beard down to his  waist.

Small 
1957, the suburbs of south east London.  Jean Swinney is a journalist on a local paper, trapped in a life of duty and  disappointment from which there is no likelihood of escape. When a young  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.

Learning To 
The Radley's were extraordinary, captivating  creatures transplanted from a bohemian corner of North London to outer  suburbia, and the young Abigail found herself drawn into their magic   the eccentric Frances, her new best friend; Frances' mother, the liberated,  headstrong Lexi; and of course the brilliant, beautiful  Rad.

In A Good 
Living with her adored brother, Christian, she  divides her time between illustrating children's books, nightly shifts as a  waitress, weekly visits to her father and fortnightly meetings with her  married lover. Then one day she encounters a face in the crowd which jolts  her out of her mundane existence and makes her question both her life and the  past that has helped to shape it.

1664 pages, Paperback

Published June 25, 2025

About the author

Clare Chambers was born on 1966 in in Croydon, Surrey, England, UK, daughter of English teachers. She attended a school in Croydon. At 16, she met Peter, her future husband, a teacher 14 years old than her. She read English at Oxford. The marriage moved to New Zealand, where she wrote her first novel. She now lives in Kent with her husband and young family. In 1999, her novel Learning to Swim won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.