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Shy Creatures

Shy Creatures

From the Author of Bestselling Sensation Small Pleasures

by Clare Chambers
Paperback
Publication Date: 03/06/2025
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From the bestselling author of SMALL PLEASURES, a new novel about love, family and the joy of freedom

'Shy Creatures confirms Clare Chambers as one of our most talented writers' GUARDIAN

'Like entering a modest bungalow and finding yourself in a cathedral' SUNDAY TIMES

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 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.

'Beautiful, tender, moving. Clare Chambers is a genius' INDIA KNIGHT 'A warm, multi-layered mystery brimming with all the same nostalgia, wit and tenderness as Small Pleasures' i PAPER

ISBN:
9781399602563
9781399602563
Category:
Historical Fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
03-06-2025
Language:
English
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
198x129mm
Clare Chambers

Clare Chamber's first job after reading English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford, was working for Diana Athill at Andre Deutsch. Clare's first novel Unceratin Terms was published by Diana at Andre Deutsch in 1992 and she is the author of five other novels.

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