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Shy Creatures : The perfect summer read from the bestselling author of Small PleasuresAuthor: Chambers, Clare Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published on 5 June 2025 by Orion Publishing Co (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) in the United Kingdom. Paperback softback 400 pages 197 x 127 x 23 280g 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 KNIGHT'Just as good if not better than Small Pleasures' INDEPENDENT'As compelling

Author: Chambers, Clare

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 5 June 2025 by Orion Publishing Co (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 400 pages
197 x 127 x 23 | 280g

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 KNIGHT'Just as good - if not better - than Small Pleasures' INDEPENDENT'As compelling as you want fiction to be' SUNDAY TIMES'One of our most talented authors' GUARDIAN'Extraordinary' 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.

Helen's structured life is upended when William Tapping - a silent, thirty-seven-year-old 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 life-affirming 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 TIMES'A warm, multilayered mystery with all the charms of Small Pleasures' i PAPER'A lively, funny, forgiving novel' PATRICK GALE'Chambers is such a humane writer and this novel is full of exquisite detail' EVENING STANDARD'A beautiful story of unfolding secrets and unforeseen consequences' HOLLY GRAMAZIO, author of THE HUSBANDS*Small Pleasures was a Silver Award bestseller according to Nielsen BookScan UK, 10 November 2023

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