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The Joy of Small Things
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The Joy of Small Things

Hannah Jane Parkinson
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Hannah Jane Parkinson is a specialist in savouring the small pleasures of life. She revels in her fluffy dressing gown (‘like bathing in marshmallow’), finds calm in solo cinema trips, is charmed by the personalities of fonts (‘you’ll never see Comic Sans on a funeral notice’), celebrates pockets and gleefully abandons a book she isn’t enjoying. This book contains Parkinson’s everyday exaltations as selected from her immensely successful Guardian column.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Guardian Faber Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Date
2 June 2022
Pages
256
ISBN
9781783352364

Hannah Jane Parkinson is a specialist in savouring the small pleasures of life. She revels in her fluffy dressing gown (‘like bathing in marshmallow’), finds calm in solo cinema trips, is charmed by the personalities of fonts (‘you’ll never see Comic Sans on a funeral notice’), celebrates pockets and gleefully abandons a book she isn’t enjoying. This book contains Parkinson’s everyday exaltations as selected from her immensely successful Guardian column.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Guardian Faber Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Date
2 June 2022
Pages
256
ISBN
9781783352364

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