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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
'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
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"A beautiful story of unfolding secrets and unforeseen consequences, filled with moments that are somehow restrained and astute and gorgeously written all at the same time." - Holly Gramazio, author of The Husbands
"Infinitely moving, quirky, acutely observed and beautifully written...Confirms Clare Chambers as one of our most talented writers. - The Guardian
"[A] life-affirming, ultimately joy-filled and soul-satisfying novel. Clare Chambers is a gifted wordsmith whose Shy Creatures shimmers, glows and charms as its secrets, lies and mysteries are deftly revealed. This exceptional novel is perfect for book clubs. Fans of writers of character-driven books such as Helen Simonson, Frederik Backman, Jacqueline Winspear, Sir Alexander McCall Smith, Monica Wood, and many more might very well embrace this novel with evangelistic fervor."
- BookTrib
"Clare Chambers is an author to read, enjoy, and watch out for. A worthy descendant of Barbara Pym, with her own intentions and style, Chambers is crafting straightforward narrative that's old-fashioned in the best, fad-defying way. Sometimes, it's daring to be quiet." - Washington Independent Review of Books
"With wit and dry humor...quietly affecting in unexpected ways. Chambers' language is beautiful, achieving what only the most skilled writers can: big pleasure wrought from small details." - New York Times on Small Pleasures
"Gripping...penetrates the secret hopes and passionate inner lives of ordinary working people. The characters provoke so much empathy, readers may have trouble remembering that they're fictional." - Booklist on Small Pleasures
"There's compassion and quiet humour to be found in this tale of a putative virgin birth in postwar suburban London... Chambers's eye for drab, undemonstrative details achieves a Larkin-esque lucidity... The postwar suburban milieu of Chambers's work has drawn comparisons to Barbara Pym, although perhaps a closer parallel could be made with Anita Brookner, with whom she shares an interest in intelligent, isolated women destabilised by the effects of an unexpected and unsustainable love affair." - Alfred Hickling, Guardian (UK), on Small Pleasures
"I loved this novel, which simmers with repressed emotions, and the gut punch of an ending really stayed with me." - Jo Finney, Good Housekeeping Book of the Month, on Small Pleasures
"Small Pleasures is a tender and heart-rending tale that will draw you in from the first page and keep you gripped until the very end. Exquisitely compelling!" - Ruth Hogan, author of The Keeper of Lost Things
"Infinitely moving, quirky, acutely observed and beautifully written...Confirms Clare Chambers as one of our most talented writers. - The Guardian
"[A] life-affirming, ultimately joy-filled and soul-satisfying novel. Clare Chambers is a gifted wordsmith whose Shy Creatures shimmers, glows and charms as its secrets, lies and mysteries are deftly revealed. This exceptional novel is perfect for book clubs. Fans of writers of character-driven books such as Helen Simonson, Frederik Backman, Jacqueline Winspear, Sir Alexander McCall Smith, Monica Wood, and many more might very well embrace this novel with evangelistic fervor."
- BookTrib
"Clare Chambers is an author to read, enjoy, and watch out for. A worthy descendant of Barbara Pym, with her own intentions and style, Chambers is crafting straightforward narrative that's old-fashioned in the best, fad-defying way. Sometimes, it's daring to be quiet." - Washington Independent Review of Books
"With wit and dry humor...quietly affecting in unexpected ways. Chambers' language is beautiful, achieving what only the most skilled writers can: big pleasure wrought from small details." - New York Times on Small Pleasures
"Gripping...penetrates the secret hopes and passionate inner lives of ordinary working people. The characters provoke so much empathy, readers may have trouble remembering that they're fictional." - Booklist on Small Pleasures
"There's compassion and quiet humour to be found in this tale of a putative virgin birth in postwar suburban London... Chambers's eye for drab, undemonstrative details achieves a Larkin-esque lucidity... The postwar suburban milieu of Chambers's work has drawn comparisons to Barbara Pym, although perhaps a closer parallel could be made with Anita Brookner, with whom she shares an interest in intelligent, isolated women destabilised by the effects of an unexpected and unsustainable love affair." - Alfred Hickling, Guardian (UK), on Small Pleasures
"I loved this novel, which simmers with repressed emotions, and the gut punch of an ending really stayed with me." - Jo Finney, Good Housekeeping Book of the Month, on Small Pleasures
"Small Pleasures is a tender and heart-rending tale that will draw you in from the first page and keep you gripped until the very end. Exquisitely compelling!" - Ruth Hogan, author of The Keeper of Lost Things