Shy Creatures
The 'extraordinary' novel about family, love and freedom from the bestselling author of Small Pleasures
'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
- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- Pages:
- 400
- Published:
- Publisher:
- Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint:
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Weight:
- 278 g