Sat 21 Sept
|The Observer Building
Clare Chambers - Shy Creatures
The award-winning author of 'Small Pleasures' talks about her newly published book.
Time & Location
21 Sept 2024, 16:45
The Observer Building, 53 Cambridge Rd, Hastings TN34 1DT, UK
About The Event
Shy Creatures is a book about love, family and the joy of freedom and it's the latest book from best-selling author Clare Chambers.
It begins:
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.
This sets the scene for Shy Creatures - Clare's ninth book. It follows Small Pleasures - which became a word-of-mouth hit on publication, and was selected as a Book of the Year by The Times, the Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph and Spectator. It also won Pageturner of the Year Award at the British Book Awards 2022 and was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2021.
Since this book was published on 29 Aug 2024, Clare has appeared on BBC Woman's Hour talking about…