Shy Creatures: the Extraordinary Novel about Family, Love and Freedom from the Bestselling Author of Small Pleasures

Shy Creatures: the Extraordinary Novel about Family, Love and Freedom from the Bestselling Author of Small Pleasures

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'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 TIMESCroydon, 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
  • Publisher: W&N
  • Dimensions: 12.6 x 3.4 x 19.6 cm
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 400 pages
  • Item weight: 270 g
  • Edition: 1st
  • Book Type: Paperback
  • ISBN-10: 139960256X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1399602563
  • Publication date: 3 June 2025
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