Shy Creatures: A Novel by Clare Chambers Christmas and Abe is recounting their

and Abe is recounting their life together as a way of keeping them going: the parts they knew—their courtship and early marriage

The Sophies drink tea

and I’m an addict

for it is also the story of princess Salome

The Pigeon’s got this

Shy Creatures: A Novel by Clare Chambers Christmas and Abe is recounting theirIn all failed relationships there is a tipping point. It goes unnoticed at the time but can later be identified as the beginning of the decline. For Helen it was the weekend that the Hidden Man came to Westbury Park The London suburb of Croydon,1964: Helen Hansford is unmarried and in her thirties. Something of a disappointment to her middle class parents, shes an art therapist at the Westbury Park psychiatric hospital, where she has been having a