Shy Creatures
by Clare Chambers
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'Clare Chambers is a genius' INDIA KNIGHT
'Just as good - if not better - than Small Pleasures' INDEPENDENT
'As compelling as you want fiction to be' SUNDAY TIMES
'One of our most talented authors' GUARDIAN
'Extraordinary' FINANCIAL TIMES
It all started the weekend the Hidden Man came to Westbury Park . . .
Croydon, 1964. Art therapist Helen Hansford is working in a psychiatric hospital, where she has been having passionate but precarious affair with her married colleague, the charismatic Dr Gil Rudden.
Helen's structured life is upended when William Tapping - a silent, thirty-seven-year-old man with a beard down to his waist - arrives at the hospital. As Helen helps William express himself through art, she becomes increasingly entangled in his mysterious past.
Inspired by a true story, Shy Creatures is a life-affirming exploration of loneliness, love and the quiet forces that shape our lives, reminding us that freedom can come in unexpected forms.
'Reading a Clare Chambers novel can feel like entering a modest bungalow and finding yourself in a cathedral' SUNDAY TIMES
'A warm, multilayered mystery with all the charms of Small Pleasures' i PAPER
'A lively, funny, forgiving novel' PATRICK GALE
'Chambers is such a humane writer and this novel is full of exquisite detail' EVENING STANDARD
'A beautiful story of unfolding secrets and unforeseen consequences' HOLLY GRAMAZIO, author of THE HUSBANDS
*Small Pleasures was a Silver Award bestseller according to Nielsen BookScan UK, 10 November 2023
Details
Shy Creatures
by Clare Chambers and Lucy Scott
ISBN
9781399602556
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Binding
Hardback
Publication date
Aug. 29, 2024
Dimensions
23.6cm x 15.4cm x 4.2cm