Shy Creatures

Clare Chambers

ISBN 10: 139960256X / ISBN 13: 9781399602563

Edité par Orion Publishing Group Jun 2025, 2025

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Neuware -A magnificent novel. I loved it to its bones' EMMA STONEX'Completely absorbing' LISSA EVANS'A lively, funny, forgiving novel' PATRICK GALE'A rich and tender story of kindness and compassion' RUTH HOGANIn all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be identified as the beginning of the decline. For Helen it was the weekend that the Hidden Man came to Westbury Park. Croydon, 1964. Helen Hansford is in her thirties and an art therapist in a psychiatric hospital where she has been having a long love affair with Gil: a charismatic, married doctor. One spring afternoon they receive a call about a disturbance from a derelict house not far from Helen's home. A thirty-seven-year-old man called William Tapping, with a beard down to his waist, has been discovered along with his elderly aunt. It is clear he has been shut up in the house for decades, but when it emerges that William is a talented artist, Helen is determined to discover his story. Shy Creatures is a life-affirming novel about all the different ways we can be confined, how ordinary lives are built of delicate layers of experience, the joy of freedom and the transformative power of kindness. 392 pp. Englisch.

N° de réf. du vendeur 9781399602563

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Shy Creatures
• Éditeur: Orion Publishing Group Jun 2025
• Date de parution: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 139960256X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781399602563
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 195 L x 127 H x 35 P (en millimètres) 195 millimètres de largeur par 127 millimètres de hauteur par 35 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 280 grammes

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Synopsis

From the author of bestselling sensation Small Pleasures comes a life-affirming exploration of love, loneliness and the quiet forces that shape our lives

À propos de l?auteur

Clare Chambers's first job after university was working for Diana Athill at André Deutsch. Her first novel Uncertain Terms was published in 1992 and she is the author of eight other novels.
Small Pleasures, her first work of fiction in ten years, became a word-of-mouth hit on publication, was selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers book club and for BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime, and was selected as a Book of the Year by The Times, the Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph, Spectator, Metro, Red and Good Housekeeping. It also won Pageturner of the Year Award at the British Book Awards 2022 and was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2021.