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Shy Creatures

The ‘extraordinary’ novel about family, love and freedom from the bestselling author of Small Pleasures

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Shy Creatures

Yazan: Clare Chambers
Seslendiren: Lucy Scott
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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 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 TIMES

It 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©2024 Clare Chambers Family Life Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological
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Absolutely beautiful - tender, moving, so clever about human beings and human frailty, and about love. It is also laugh out loud funny in places. As with Small Pleasures, the little telling details are brilliantly done. Clare Chambers is a genius (INDIA KNIGHT)
Shy Creatures is a magnificent novel, elegantly written, beautifully devised and radiant with treasures to surprise and delight. It is both a compelling mystery about a lonely man with a hidden past and a deeply involving study of human frailty, divided loyalties, and what it means to help someone. Clare Chambers is a writer of formidable skill and this is her best work yet, penned with such intelligence, tenderness and emotional acuity, it took my breath away. I loved it to its bones (EMMA STONEX)
I adored Shy Creatures and eked out this addictive treat as long as I could and now can only urge anyone with an interest in psychiatry, siblings, Croydon, buried trauma, adultery, the early 60s or simply humanity to seek it out. Once again, Clare Chambers reveals her unflinching grasp of human fallibility and eye for the resonant detail that make the reader care deeply about her characters' fates. A lively, funny, forgiving novel which I bet will do just as well as Small Pleasures (PATRICK GALE)
Shy Creatures reads easily and delightfully and yet is rich with emotional truth, and completely absorbing. I loved it, and didn't want it to end (LISSA EVANS)
Beautiful . . . A rich and tender story of kindness and compassion and the survival of the human spirit against enormous odds (RUTH HOGAN)
A beautiful, immersive, pitch-perfect novel (LAURA BARNETT)
An arresting and cinematic jewel of a novel. I admire the way Chambers writes with such compassion for her characters. She's a true virtuoso of human emotion, and the deftness of her light touch is simply stunning. Small Pleasures was one of my favorite reads of the last few years, and her follow up did not disappoint (KELLY MULLEN)
Shy Creatures confirms Clare Chambers as one of our most talented writers, inhabiting something of the territory of Barbara Pym and Elizabeth Taylor and placing her outside contemporary fashions, although there are echoes of Tessa Hadley and Sarah Waters . . . Chambers's exquisite prose is a consistent pleasure, while the acuity of her observation possesses beauty and universality . . . Dark humour rumbles beneath even her most melancholy evocations; irony and compassion weave through her portraits of repressed lives that finally glimmer with some hope of liberation (Joanna Briscoe)
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I loved the narration and the plot was satisfying if a bit too neat at the end. Readers who couldn’t cope with the way ‘small pleasures’ ended will appreciate this one. As a long time croydon resident I loved all the local references and liked the backward structure reminiscent of sarah waters. I once worked in a psychiatric unit run on Laingian principles and Gil was very familiar. Younger readers will be shocked by all the smoking and the food we used to eat. The big snow took me back to that winter which as privileged middle class children we loved. I’m looking forward to seeing CC next week

My home town

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Unfolds like a warm quilt - enveloping you into the lives of two unique protagonists. Uplifting and memorable.

Another wonder of a book - sink yourselves into it pdq!

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Absolutely loved this novel - Chambers has the most amazing knack of describing the minutiae of everyday life so cleverly and Lucy Scott has the perfect voice for this book.

Fabulous

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A story with really interesting characters, based on the bones of a real life story of a man who didn't leave his house for many years. Some tragedy in there but also lots of hope and kind characters.

A fascinating story of a life hidden away

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A beautifully written book. Each character is so well rounded. The description of the each scene is so visual you feel as if you’re actually there.
Narration was perfect.
Well worth the credit.

Informative and engaging. Fresh & Original.

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