An Evening with Clare Chambers in Cambridge

Join Clare Chambers as she discusses her new, captivating novel Shy Creatures –a life-affirming novel about all the different ways we can be confined, the joy of freedom, and the transformative power of kindness.

Shy Creatures is an immersive, multi-layered novel from the bestselling author of Small Pleasures that follows an art therapist in a psychiatric hospital in 1960s Croydon who decides to unravel the story of an immensely talented mute patient.

‘Shy Creatures reads easily and delightfully and yet is rich with emotional truth, and completely absorbing. I loved it, and didn’t want it to end.’ Lissa Evans,

Clare Chamber’s first job after university was working for Diana Athill at Andre Deutsch. Her first novel Uncertain Terms was published in 1992 and she is the author of eight other novels. Small Pleasures, her first work of fiction in ten years, because a word-of-mouth hit on publication, was selected for BBC2 Between the Covers book club and for BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime, and was selected as a Book of the Year by The Times, the Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph, Spectator, Metro, Red and Good Housekeeping. It also won the Pageturner of the Year Award at the British Book Awards in 2022 and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2021.

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