title: The Human Shadow and What Stories Do We Need?
author:  Robert Bly 
description: Robert Bly (born December 23, 1926) is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement, most famous for his Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), which spent 62 weeks on the The New York Times Best Seller list. For The Light Around the Body he won the 1968 National Book Award for Poetry.
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  THE SHADOW MAN
  
  Helen Fields
  
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  First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2021
  
  
  Copyright © Helen Fields 2021
  
  
  Cover design by Claire Ward © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2021
  
  
  Cover photographs © Jane Morley/Trevillion Images (main image), Tim
  Robinson/Trevillion Images (shadow of man)
  
  
  Helen Fields asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this
  work.
  
  
  A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.
  
  
  This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents
  portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to
  actual persons, living or dead,