Shy Creatures: From the author of bestselling sensation Small Pleasures by Clare

Description: Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers, Lucy Scott From the bestselling author of SMALL PLEASURES, a new novel about love, family and the joy of freedom FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A magnificent novel. I loved it to its bones EMMA STONEXCompletely absorbing LISSA EVANSA lively, funny, forgiving novel PATRICK GALEA 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 Helens 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. Author Biography Clare Chamberss first job after university was working for Diana Athill at Andre 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 Womens Prize for Fiction in 2021. Review 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 KNIGHTShy 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 STONEXI 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 GALEShy Creatures reads easily and delightfully and yet is rich with emotional truth, and completely absorbing. I loved it, and didnt want it to end -- LISSA EVANSBeautiful . . . A rich and tender story of kindness and compassion and the survival of the human spirit against enormous odds -- RUTH HOGANA beautiful, immersive, pitch-perfect novel -- LAURA BARNETTAn arresting and cinematic jewel of a novel. I admire the way Chambers writes with such compassion for her characters. Shes 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 MULLENShy 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 . . . Chamberss 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 * Guardian *Reading a Clare Chambers novel can feel like entering a modest bungalow and finding yourself in a cathedral. The low ceilings and cramped passages of her novels, which record the placid lives of mid-century English suburbanites, open into high, mysterious spaces where stories of love and turbulent emotions play out - sometimes in unpredictable ways . . . This is writing of the highest quality. Wise, beautifully measured and as compelling as you want fiction to be -- Johanna Thomas-Corr * Sunday Times *A satisfyingly plotted combination of slow-burn mystery and a deftly drawn portrait of an unmarried woman in an era where that was not such an easy thing to be . . . stirring and absorbing * i Newspaper *Shy Creatures is a warm, multi-layered mystery brimming with all the same nostalgia, wit and tenderness as Small Pleasures, the 2020 novel which made this author so beloved -- Anna Bonet * i Paper, Top Fiction Pick *A tender, absorbing novel . . . And its just as good - if not better - than her last * Independent *A tender, moving story -- Sarra Manning * RED, The months best books *Another thoughtful and deeply sympathetic performance -- Stephanie Cross * Scottish Daily Mail *A captivating story * Sunday Post * Details ISBN1399602551 Author Lucy Scott Publisher Orion Publishing Co Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781399602556 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2024-08-29 Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Audience General UK Release Date 2024-08-29 Pages 400 NZ Release Date 2024-11-25 ISBN-10 1399602551 AU Release Date 2024-11-25 Narrator Lucy Scott Subtitle From the author of bestselling sensation Small Pleasures We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161246187;

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