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001 on1404054187
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005 20241119135847.0
008 231018t20242024nyu 000 0 eng d
020 _a9780063258228
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020 _a9780063423145
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020 _a0063423146
_q(international edition)
035 _a(OCoLC)on1404054187
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050 4 _aPR6053.H2858
_bS59 2024
082 0 4 _a823/.914
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100 1 _aChambers, Clare,
_eauthor.
_1https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJwhtqFk7KjgbdT9Prp3wC
_9141106
245 1 0 _aShy creatures :
_ba novel /
250 _aFirst US edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bMariner Books,
_c[2024]
264 4 _c�2024
300 _a391 pages ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _aOriginally published in the United Kingdom in 2024 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
520 _a"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..."--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aSecrecy
_vFiction.
650 0 _aAdultery
_vFiction.
650 0 _aMan-woman relationships
_vFiction.
650 0 _aPsychiatric hospitals
_vFiction.
650 0 _aPsychiatric hospital patients
_vFiction.
650 0 _aArt teachers
_vFiction.
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650 0 _aArtists
_vFiction.
650 0 _aSocial isolation
_vFiction.
651 0 _aEngland
_vFiction.
655 7 _aBildungsromans.
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655 7 _aDetective and mystery fiction.
_2lcgft
655 7 _aHistorical fiction.
_2lcgft
655 7 _aNovels.
_2lcgft
655 7 _aRomans.
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