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| speakerDescription | <p>Clare Chambers began her career as a secretary at the publisher André Deutsch in 1990 when Diana Athill was still at the helm. They not only published her first novel but made her type her own contract. She has written eight further books including <i>Learning to Swim</i> (1998) which won the Romantic Novelists’ Association best novel award and <i>In a Good Light</i> (2004), which was longlisted for the Whitbread novel prize. Her most recent book, <i>Small Pleasures</i>, published after a ten-year interval, became a word-of-mouth bestseller and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize 2021 and won Page-turner of the year at the British Book Awards 2022. She was born and still lives in southeast London.</p> |
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