Shy Creatures

From the author of bestselling sensation Small Pleasures comes an extraordinary story of love, family and the joy of freedom. <BR>'Clare Chambers is a genius' INDIA KNIGHT<BR><BR>'Just as good - if not better - than Small Pleasures' INDEPENDENT<BR><BR>'As compelling as you want fiction to be' SUNDAY TIMES<BR><BR>'One of our most talented authors' GUARDIAN<BR><BR>'Extraordinary' FINANCIAL TIMES<BR><BR>It all started the weekend the Hidden Man came to Westbury Park . . .<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>'Reading a Clare Chambers novel can feel like entering a modest bungalow and finding yourself in a cathedral' SUNDAY TIMES<BR><BR>'A warm, multilayered mystery with all the charms of Small Pleasures' i PAPER<BR><BR>'A lively, funny, forgiving novel' PATRICK GALE<BR><BR>'Chambers is such a humane writer and this novel is full of exquisite detail' EVENING STANDARD<BR><BR>'A beautiful story of unfolding secrets and unforeseen consequences' HOLLY GRAMAZIO, author of THE HUSBANDS<BR><BR><BR>*Small Pleasures was a Silver Award bestseller according to Nielsen BookScan UK, 10 November 2023

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