小说通过非线性的叙事结构，背景设定于1940年至1990年代，讲述两个双胞胎在父亲因私刑去世后的平行生活。
1957年，Jean在一家当地报纸工作，有一天，她收到了一位妇女叫做格雷琴·蒂尔伯（Gretchen Tilbury）的奇怪信件，她声称她10岁的女儿是她在处女的时候生下来的。
当她被报社委派跟进故事时，便和寄信人格雷琴·蒂尔伯及她的家人越走越近。这种快乐在开始的时候是快乐的，但随着时间的流逝，事情变得复杂起来，Jean在此获得了友谊、爱情，可能还有幸福，但这却是要付出代价的……

CLARE CHAMBERS，first job after readingEnglish Literature at Hertford College, Oxford,was working for Diana Athill at Andre Deutsch.Clare's frst novel Uncertain Terms waspublished by Diana at Andre Deutsch in 199aand she is the author of eight other novels.
Small Pleasures, her first work of fiction in tenyears, became a word-of-mouth hit on publication,was selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers bookclub and for BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime, andwas longlisted for the Women's Prize.

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