Small Pleasures
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The fact that his ire was aimed not at them, but at some nearby object that confounded him didn’t make it any easier to ignore; for quiet people, raised voices are experienced as a kind of aggression even when directed elsewhere.
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The past is always with me, but it’s also the past. It didn’t ruin me. It didn’t.
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In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be identified as the beginning of the decline. For
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Already there was between them that invisible thread that joins two people who have noticed each other for the first time.
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There was something luxurious in revisiting an old sorrow from the safe haven of present happiness...
Her face was powdered, her lips a ghastly clownish red. She didn’t normally use make-up and wore it now with a kind of wincing discomfort, like new shoes.
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Small Pleasures
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In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be identified as the beginning of the decline. For Helen it was the weekend that the Hidden Man came to Westbury Park.
Croydon, 1964. Helen Hansford is in her thirties and an art therapist in a psychiatric hospital where she has been having a long love affair with a charismatic, married doctor.
One spring afternoon they receive a call about a disturbance from a derelict house not far from Helen's home. A mute, thirty-seven-year-old man called William Tapping, with a beard down to his waist, has been discovered along with his elderly aunt. It is clear he has been shut up in the house for decades, but when it emerges that William is a talented artist, Helen is determined to discover his story.
Shy Creatures is a life-affirming novel about all the different ways we can be confined, how o
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- 2024
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- Clare Chambers
- Genre
- Historical
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- 4.06 (21k ratings)
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