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_aChambers, Clare, _eauthor. _1https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJwhtqFk7KjgbdT9Prp3wC _9141106 |
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_aShy creatures : _ba novel / |
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_aNew York : _bMariner Books, _c[2024] |
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_a391 pages ; _c24 cm |
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_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia |
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500 | _aOriginally published in the United Kingdom in 2024 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. | ||
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_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. |
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_aSecrecy _vFiction. |
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_aAdultery _vFiction. |
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_aMan-woman relationships _vFiction. |
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_aPsychiatric hospitals _vFiction. |
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_aPsychiatric hospital patients _vFiction. |
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_aArt teachers _vFiction. _918676 |
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_aArtists _vFiction. |
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_aSocial isolation _vFiction. |
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_aEngland _vFiction. |
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_aBildungsromans. _2lcgft |
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_aDetective and mystery fiction. _2lcgft |
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