Shy Creatures By Clare Chambers

From the Women’s Prize longlisted, British Book Award-winning, bestselling author of Small Pleasures, a new novel about love, family and the joy of freedom. Coming August 2024 – AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW! ‘I was worried this wouldn’t be as good as the brilliant Small Pleasures, but it might be even better. Clare Chambers is a genius’ INDIA KNIGHT’A magnificent novel. I loved it to its bones’ EMMA STONEX’A lively, funny, forgiving novel’ PATRICK GALE’Completely absorbing’ LISSA EVANS’A 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.O