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Mr. Fox

Pages
336
Published
2011
Language
English

Synopsis

In 1938, celebrated novelist St John Fox receives an unexpected visit from Mary Foxe, a character he created who doesn't actually exist. Mary confronts him, accusing him of being a 'serial killer' of his heroines and challenging him to explore love instead of violence in his stories. As his fictional muse demands a change in his narrative, St John must grapple with his creations and the impact on his real life, including his wife Daphne. Can he rewrite his own story for a happy ending?

About the author

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Helen Oyeyemi

Helen Oyeyemi is a British novelist and short-story writer, born in Ibadan, Nigeria, in 1984 and raised in London from the age of four. She wrote her first novel, The Icarus Girl, while still at school, and has since published the novels The Opposite House, White Is for Witching, Mr Fox, Boy, Snow, Bird, Gingerbread, Peaces, Parasol Against the Axe and A New New Me, along with the story collection What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours. She won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2010 and the PEN Open Book Aw...

Characters

Mary FoxeProtagonist
St John FoxAntagonist
DaphneSupporting
All characters in Mr. Fox
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