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Mr. Fox

Helen Oyeyemi

20111 pagesabout 5–10 minutes
2011
first published
  • 2011WindsorISBN 9781445858821
  • 2011Picador · 277 pages · ENGISBN 9780330536264
  • 2011Riverhead Books · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9781594488078
  • 2025Pan Macmillan · 288 pages · ENGISBN 9781035063758
  • 2012Picador USAISBN 9780330534697
  • 2012Riverhead Books · 336 pagesISBN 9781594486180
  • 2011AudioGO · 1 pagesISBN 9781609986032
  • 2011Hamish Hamilton · 336 pagesISBN 9780143179238

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?

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Character focusTwo hander

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Romance levelCentral

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ThemesLoveClass
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