For Adults
Read the extraordinary new novel from Clare Chambers, bestselling author of Small Pleasures
We are offering a set of 8 reading copies to 5 reading groups/book clubs, as well as a box of luxury tea to enjoy together when you meet. Get in touch below with details of your reading group including no. of members to request a set of books.
More about the book:
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.
