LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021’A WORD-OF-MOUTH HIT’ Evening Standard ‘A very fine book… It’s witty and sharp and reads like something by Barbara Pym or Anita Brookner, without ever feeling like a pastiche’David Nicholls’Perfect’India Knight ‘Beautiful’ Jessie Burton’Wonderful’Richard Osman ‘Miraculous’Tracy Chevalier ‘A wonderful novel. I loved it’Nina Stibbe ‘Effortless to read, but every sentence lingers in the mind’ Lissa Evans ‘This is one of the most beautiful books I have ever read. I honestly don’t want you to be without it’Lucy Mangan’Gorgeous… If you’re looking for something escapist and bittersweet, I could not recommend more’ Pandora Sykes’Remarkable… Small Pleasures is no small pleasure’The Times’An irresistible novel – wry, perceptive and quietly devastating’Mail on Sunday’Chambers’ eye for undemonstrative details achieves a Larkin-esque lucidity’ Guardian’An almost flawlessly written tale of genuine, grown-up rom