Shy Creatures

'Shy Creatures confirms Clare Chambers as one of our most talented writers' GUARDIAN<p></p><p></p>'Like entering a modest bungalow and finding yourself in a cathedral' SUNDAY TIMES<p></p><p></p>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.<p></p><p></p>Helen's structured life is upended when William Tapping - a silent, thirty-seven-year-old man with a beard down to his waist - arrives the hospital. As Helen helps William express himself through art, she becomes increasingly entangled in his mysterious past.<p></p><p></p>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.<p></p><p></p>'Beautiful, tender, moving. Clare Chambers is a genius' INDIA KNIGHT<p></p><p></p>'A warm, multi-layered mystery brimming with all the same nostalgia, wit and tenderness as Small Pleasures' i PAPER