Book description
When sweet, healthy hearty Holly Fox dies suddenly in childbirth, the
Surrey village whose pearl she was reverberates with shock. She leaves
behind her a helpless, silent husband, and a tiny daughter, Faith.
Everyone assumes Holly's loving and capable mother Thomasina will look
after Faith, but when she unaccountably deserts her newborn grandchild,
the baby must be packed off to her father's peculiar family in the North
- 'the very strangest people you ever saw my dear'. With wisdom,
generosity, and understanding, Jane Gardam takes as her subject the
English heart in all its eccentric variety. FAITH FOX sheds a clear,
true light on the pain of bereavement whilst always offering the joyous
possibility of a new beginning. Jane Gardam has been awarded the
Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime's contribution to the
enjoyment of literature; has twice won a Whitbread Award and has been
shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She was awarded an OBE in January
2009.
