BIBFRAME Work

Title

Shy creatures

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Chambers, Clare (author )

Subject

• 1900-1999 (FAST)
• AWARD
• FICTION / Literary (BISACSH)
• Aunts--Fiction (SEARS)
• Psychiatric hospital patients--Fiction (LCSH)
• Adultery--Fiction (SEARS)
• Hermits--Fiction (SEARS)
• Man-woman relationships--Fiction (LCSH)
• UK
• Adultery--Fiction (LCSH)
• England (FAST)
• Man-woman relationships (FAST)
• Psychiatric hospitals (FAST)
• FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical (BISACSH)
• LITERATURE
• Secrecy (FAST)
• Manners and customs (FAST)
• Art teachers--Fiction (LCSH)
• FICTION / Women (BISACSH)
• Psychiatric hospitals--Fiction (SEARS)
• DRAMA
• Social isolation--Fiction (LCSH)
• AGE
• Nineteen sixties--Fiction (LCSH)
• SPRAYED EDGES
• London (England)--Fiction (SEARS)
• Psychiatric hospitals--Fiction (LCSH)
• Loneliness--Fiction (SEARS)
• Non-monogamy (HOMOIT)
• 2024
• MISC
• SET
• FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / Post-World War II (BISACSH)
• Nineteen sixties (FAST)
• GREAT
• Adultery (FAST)
• Social isolation (FAST)
• Mute persons--Fiction (SEARS)
• Man-woman relationship--Fiction (SEARS)
• ART
• LITERARY FICTION
• GIFTS FOR HER
• Art teachers (FAST)
• Secrecy--Fiction (LCSH)
• Secrecy--Fiction (SEARS)
• BEST NOVELS OF 2023
• FICTION / World Literature / England / 20th Century (BISACSH)
• SPOTIFY
• THERAPY
• AMERICAN
• Artists (FAST)
• LOVE STORY
• SUB
• Psychiatric hospital patients (FAST)
• Non-consensual non-monogamy (HOMOIT)
• BRIDGERTON
• England--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction (LCSH)
• FICTION / Coming of Age (BISACSH)
• Artists--Fiction (LCSH)
• Patients--Fiction (SEARS)

Genre Form

• Fiction (FAST)
• Historical fiction (LCGFT)
• Romans (RVMGF)
• Historical fiction (FAST)
• Detective and mystery fiction (FAST)
• Novels (LCGFT)
• Bildungsromans (FAST)
• Novels (FAST)
• Bildungsromans (LCGFT)
• Fiction (LCGFT)
• Historical fiction (LCSH)
• Detective and mystery fiction (LCGFT)

Language

• English

Classification

• DDC: 823/.914
• LCC: PR6053.H2858 S59 2024 (Status: not used by assigner) (Status: upgraded prepub)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography

Summary

"The London suburb of Croydon, 1964: Helen Hansford is unmarried and in her thirties. Something of a disappointment to her middle-class parents, she's an art therapist at the Westbury Park psychiatric hospital, where she has been having a rebellious love affair with her colleague Gil, a dashing but married doctor. One spring afternoon they receive a call about a disturbance at a derelict, vine-covered Victorian house a few miles up the road. There the police find a mute, thirty-seven-year-old man called William Tapping, his hair and beard down to his waist. It appears he lives in the old house with his elderly, frail aunt, who expires as soon as she's admitted to the hospital. No one knows why William has been shut away for decades, unseen by neighbors, with only his two now-deceased aunts for company. Westbury Park becomes his refuge. When it emerges that William is not only sane but a talented artist, Helen comes to see him as something of a personal project. But as she tries to solve the puzzle of the Hidden Man's past, Helen's own carefully constructed life of secrets begins to unravel..."-- Provided by publisher.

Authorized Access Point

Chambers, Clare. Shy creatures

Intended audience

• adult

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:22:48.218143+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 24128712

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc