From the author of bestselling sensation Small Pleasures comes an extraordinary story of love, family and the joy of freedom. Clare Chambers is a genius INDIA KNIGHTJust as good if not better than Small Pleasures INDEPENDENTAs compelling as you want fiction to be SUNDAY TIMESOne of our most talented authors GUARDIANExtraordinary FINANCIAL TIMESIt 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.Helens structured life is upended when William Tapping a silent, thirtysevenyearold 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 lifeaffirming 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 TIMESA warm, multilayered mystery with all the charms of Small Pleasures i PAPERA lively, funny, forgiving novel PATRICK GALEChambers is such a humane writer and this novel is full of exquisite detail EVENING STANDARDA beautiful story of unfolding secrets and unforeseen consequences HOLLY GRAMAZIO, author of THE...
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From the author of bestselling sensation Small Pleasures comes an extraordinary story of love, family and the joy of freedom. Clare Chambers is a genius INDIA KNIGHTJust as good if not better than Small Pleasures INDEPENDENTAs compelling as you want fiction to be SUNDAY TIMESOne of our most talented authors GUARDIANExtraordinary FINANCIAL TIMESIt 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.Helens structured life is upended when William Tapping a silent, thirtysevenyearold 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 lifeaffirming 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 TIMESA warm, multilayered mystery with all the charms of Small Pleasures i PAPERA lively, funny, forgiving novel PATRICK GALEChambers is such a humane writer and this novel is full of exquisite detail EVENING STANDARDA beautiful story of unfolding secrets and unforeseen consequences HOLLY GRAMAZIO, author of THE...
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