Small Pleasures

Jean Swinney is a reporter for a newspaper in London in 1957 when she decides to investigate a story about a young woman, Gretchen Tilbury, who claims that her daughter resulted from a virgin birth. Jean comes to befriend not only Gretchen but Gretchen's daughter, Margaret, and Gretchen's husband, Howard, and soon Margaret becomes almost a godchild and Howard...Jean falls hard for Howard.

The time and place feel genuinely 1957 suburban London, and the characters are intriguing and relatable.