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Clare Chambers, virgin births, sexual revolution and her approach to writing

“[Readers] know that the sexual revolution is coming, the 1960s are coming. Life is about to get better for most people. But the characters don’t know that, so they don’t have our sense of disappointment in their lives”
Clare Chambers © Anna McCarthy
Clare Chambers © Anna McCarthy
Clare Chambers’ latest novel, set in England in the 1950s, centres on a young woman’s mysterious claim of a ‘virgin birth’

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