The bestselling author of Small Pleasures discusses her new novel, Shy Creatures, about a talented artist incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital in Croydon in the 1960s, and the female art therapist who sets out to discover his story. With host Ann Morgan.

Clare Chambers is the author of Small Pleasures, which became a word-of-mouth hit on publication, was selected for BBC2 Between the Covers book club and for BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime, and was selected as a Book of the Year by The Times, the Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph, Spectator, Metro, Red and Good Housekeeping. 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.

Ann Morgan is a writer, speaker and editor based in Folkestone. She is author of Reading the World: How I Read a Book From Every Country; Beside Myself; and Crossing Over.