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The Fox

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The Fox

By: Annie Macmanus
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FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MOTHER MOTHER

'Annie Macmanus can write. The Fox is a beautifully natural but offbeat story of love and betrayal' MATT HAIG
'Skilfully subverts and upends our expectations of what a modern day love story might look like' MONA ARSHI
'Completely absorbing. I was chilled and heartbroken in equal measure' KATHERINE MAY
'A beautifully formidable reckoning with what it means to be alive' JENNI FAGAN

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53-year-old Carmel is furious at her husband for dying. Grief-stricken and holding everything together for her adult sons, she’s never felt more alone. But as spring arrives in Dublin, she meets fellow widower Graham on a dating app. He makes her feel truly alive for the first time in years.

Across the sea in London, twenty-something Lisa devotes her life to helping people. Beneath the gleaming facades of Westminster, she cares for the homeless at work, and for her troubled sister at home. But Lisa has a secret that sustains her, and it’s growing more dangerous by the day.

When the two women’s lives collide, it brings a twisted connection that neither of them could have imagined – and cannot be undone.
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Critic reviews

"I devoured The Fox! Such a clever but human story of two lives colliding. My heart wouldn’t stop thumping" (SARA COX)
"The Fox is a compelling, unforgettable and deeply original novel. A profound meditation on grief, loneliness, and the enduring human need for connection . . . beautiful, tender, mysterious and a sharply observed portrayal of midlife, full of intrigue and with the irresistible pace of a page-turner" (ELAINE FEENEY)
"A very 21st-century story of love and obsession" (SAM BAKER)
"A real literary page turner, a rare book, it’s absolutely amazing" (DONAL RYAN)
"An excellent idea for a novel . . . I was fascinated to read the knotty, horrifying situation play out in all its revealing mess. It's Annie's best book yet, filled with subtle insight and an unprejudiced understanding. It's a delicious book to spend an intense weekend with" (AMY LIPTROT)
"Annie Macmanus can write. The Fox is a beautifully natural but offbeat story of love and betrayal. Strangely tense and serene all at once" (MATT HAIG)
"In The Fox, Macmanus's strengths are plain to see; this is powerful writing with psychologically complex characters. She plots so skilfully and subverts and upends our expectations of what a modern day love story might look like" (MONA ARSHI)
"Completely absorbing. I was chilled and heartbroken in equal measure" (KATHERINE MAY)
"The Fox takes us into the recesses of profound and deepest yearning, exploring a very human longing to experience connection and love, to be seen by another and valued . . . The Fox is witty, clever and a beautifully formidable reckoning with what it means to be alive at all" (JENNI FAGAN)
"This novel is devastatingly beautiful; it is tragic and uplifting in equal measure" (KATRIONA O'SULLIVAN)
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