Mr Fox
By (Author) Helen Oyeyemi
Pan Macmillan
Picador
16th May 2012
10th February 2012
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Paperback
288
Width 130mm, Height 197mm, Spine 18mm
199g
It's a bright afternoon in 1938 and Mary Foxe is in a confrontational mood. St John Fox, celebrated novelist, hasn't seen her in six years. He's unprepared for her afternoon visit, not least because she doesn't exist. He's infatuated with her. But he also made her up. "You're a villain," she tells him. "A serial killer... can you grasp that" Will Mr Fox meet his muse's challenge, to stop murdering his heroines and explore something of love What will his wife Daphne think of this sudden change in her husband Can there be a happy ending this time
Oyeyemis characters almost dance on their pages. This is her best, most beautiful novel yet. * Independent on Sunday *
Funny, deep, shocking, wry, heart-warming and spine-chilling. * Guardian *
Funny and fresh, piercingly astute. * Daily Telegraph *
Not just vibrantly imaginative but filled with wit and wisdom. Her best book so far. * Metro *
A love story like no other: so vivid and inventive, its pages almost glow. -- Sarah Waters, author of The Paying Guests
Helen Oyeyemi is the author of four novels, most recently White is for Witching, which won a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award, and Mr Fox.