{"product_id":"9781399602563","title":"Shy Creatures","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Clare Chambers\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945) | Historical fiction\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 5\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e June 2025 by Orion Publishing Co (Weidenfeld \u0026amp; Nicolson) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 400 pages \u003cbr\u003e197mm x 127mm x 23mm | 276g\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"gardners-meta\"\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Shy Creatures confirms Clare Chambers as one of our most talented writers' GUARDIAN'Like entering a modest bungalow and finding yourself in a cathedral' SUNDAY TIMESCroydon, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelen'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Beautiful, tender, moving. Clare Chambers is a genius' INDIA KNIGHT'A warm, multi-layered mystery brimming with all the same nostalgia, wit and tenderness as Small Pleasures' i PAPER\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners Books Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55335668515191,"sku":"9781399602563","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9781399602563.jpg?v=1750325353","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.co.uk\/products\/9781399602563","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}