Clare Chambers 5 Books Collection Set (Back Trouble, The Editor's Wife, A Dry Spell, Learning To Swim, In A Good Light)

Clare Chambers 5 Books Collection Set brings together five novels by Clare Chambers: Back Trouble, The Editor's Wife, A Dry Spell, Learning To Swim and In A Good Light. This is a five-book collection set.

Included titles

• Back Trouble
• The Editor's Wife
• A Dry Spell
• Learning To Swim
• In A Good Light

Key details

• Five-book collection set
• Author: Clare Chambers
• Includes Back Trouble, The Editor's Wife, A Dry Spell, Learning To Swim and In A Good Light

Synopses

Back Trouble

Approaching forty and newly single after a business failure, Philip finds himself abruptly laid low by an accident on a South London street. Confined to bed and with time to fill, he begins writing the story of his life.

As he works through everyday memories and family history, the account opens onto broken relationships and long-held silences. What emerges is a sequence of revelations that are by turns comic and affecting, with surprises that reach further than Philip expects.

The Editor's Wife

Christopher Flinders leaves university determined to write his masterpiece, fitting the work around jobs as a fish delivery man and a builder’s mate. His ambitions are met with scepticism at home.

Everything shifts when he is taken up by London editor Owen Goddard and Owen’s wife, Diana. Coming from an unglamorous suburb and a complicated family life, Christopher is drawn to the charm and culture of his new mentors as success appears to come within reach.

A Dry Spell

In 1976, four students travel to the desert, and years later the consequences of that summer begin to return. Guy is already under strain as his wife, Jane, becomes increasingly peculiar, their three-year-old tests her limits, and even his faith feels unsettled.

Nina, meanwhile, is preoccupied with her son James, facing exams, a new girlfriend and signs that he may be taking drugs. Neither of them welcomes the past resurfacing, yet the repercussions refuse to stay buried.

Learning To Swim

Abigail Jex does not expect to cross paths with the Radley household again. The Radleys, transplanted from a bohemian corner of North London to outer suburbia, have an unusual pull.

Drawn into their orbit, Abigail becomes close to Frances, and encounters Frances’s mother Lexi, as well as the brilliant and beautiful Rad. The household’s distinctive energy creates a “magic circle” that proves hard to forget.

In A Good Light

Esther Fairchild slips into a life shaped by routine, sharing a home with her beloved brother Christian. Her days are divided between illustrating children’s books, waitressing at night, visiting her father weekly and meeting a married lover every fortnight.

A chance sighting in a crowd disrupts that settled pattern and forces her to reconsider both her present and the past. Memories she has chosen to suppress begin to surface, including an eccentric childhood in a large, shabby house defined by unorthodox values and a shifting cast of feckless guests.

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