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Part I (Chapters 1 - 6)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Chambers, Clare. Small Pleasures. HarperCollins, Italy, 2021. Hardcover.

• This book was written in the past tense and from the third person perspective.

• The book starts with a report from the Kent Echo newspaper about a rail disaster that killed many people - a real-life event - on December 6, 1957 on a train from Charing Cross, England, to Hayes.

• The disaster was caused by thick fog.

• In Chapter 1, Jean Swinney was a middle-aged journalist in 1957 working for the North Kent Echo.

• She was one of only a handful of women working in this role at the time.

• The paper received a letter from Mrs. Gretchen Tilbury of Sidcup positing that Gretchen's daughter Margaret, now about 10 years old, was the product of an immaculate conception in 1947.

• The male editors at the paper were intrigued, and...

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