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Faith Fox
Faith Fox
Author: Jane Gardam
Faith Fox is a sparkling novel of comedy and conversation, birth and death, and the differences between England’s well-born and plain people from a two-time winner of the Whitbread Prize and Booker Prize finalist. This comedy of manners set in early ’90s Britain centers around newborn Faith Fox, the daughter of the sweet, healthy, an...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780786714476
ISBN-10: 0786714476
Publication Date: 1/26/2005
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Carroll Graf
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 2
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When sweet, healthy, hearty Holly Fox dies suddenly in childbirth, the Surrey village whose pearl she is reverberates with shock. She leaves behind her a helpless, silent husband and tiny newborn Faith. Everyone assumes Holly's loving and capable mother, Thomasina, will look after Faith, but when she deserts her newborn grandchild, the baby must be packed off to her father's peculiar family in the North--'the very strangest people you every saw, my dear." With wisdom, generosity and understanding, Jane Gardam takes to heart this eccentric tale. This book sheds a clear, true light on the pain of bereavement while always offering the joyous possibility of a new beginning. The characters are quite eccentric and entertaining.


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