Small Pleasures: A Novel the police are forced to

the police are forced to bring in Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick

Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Nonfiction Prize * Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History

but living among the angry and the mourning is almost as hard as carrying the shame of having been the driver

The Timeless Novel About a Bus Ride from Hell to Heaven

Small Pleasures: A Novel the police are forced toIn the best tradition of Tessa Hadley, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ann Patchettan astonishing, keenly observed period piece about an ordinary British woman in the 1950s whose dutiful life takes a sudden turn into a pitched battle between propriety and unexpected passion. "With wit and dry humor quietly affecting in unexpected ways. Chambers' language is beautiful, achieving what only the most skilled writers can: big pleasure wrought from small details." The