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Shy Creatures: The extraordinary novel about family, love and freedom from the bestselling author of Small Pleasures
Clare Chambers
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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 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
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Praise for Shy Creatures: The extraordinary novel about family, love and freedom from the bestselling author of Small Pleasures
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I was worried this wouldn't be as good as the brilliant Small Pleasures, but it might be even better. Clare Chambers is a geniusWise, beautifully measured and as compelling as you want fiction to be - SUNDAY TIMESI adored Shy Creatures and urge anyone with an interest in psychiatry, siblings, Croydon, buried trauma, adultery, the early 60s or simply humanity to seek it out
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