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The Fox's Walk
Alice Moore is eight years old and has just been left in the care of her autocratic grandmother at Ballydavid, a lovely old house in the south of Ireland. It is 1915, the First World War has just entered its second year, and, in Ireland, Nation-alists are edging toward revolution. Often lonely and homesick, living in a rigid old-fashioned household where propriety is all-i...more
Paperback, 336 pages
Published
September 7th 2004
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
(first published 2003)
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I found this novel to be perfect. I'm still stunned by the ending, so surprising, and inevitable, and resonant. I've read Davis-Goff's other books, and liked them, but this is seriously good. Not for those readers who like a fast pace. No car chases, no heady cliffs, but the terror of the intelligent child, surrounded by adults, and by the political situation in Ireland during WWI. If you like Shirley Hazzard's The Great Fire, you might well enjoy The Fox's Walk.
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I was not familiar with The Fox’s Walk. My sister gave it to me because my first name is mentioned in the book, and I’ve made a small collection of literature where my somewhat unusual name is used. Although she had some reservations about how much I would like the novel, I found it to be a very satisfying read.
The setting is Waterford County, Ireland in the five years leading up to and during World War I. It also sets the scene for the Irish political turmoil to come in the dream of ...more
The setting is Waterford County, Ireland in the five years leading up to and during World War I. It also sets the scene for the Irish political turmoil to come in the dream of ...more
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This book was somewhat enchanting. It looked like the sort of literary book that would inevitably be depressing, but it wasn't really. I really liked reading about the small Edwardian world presented here and enjoyed the book. It happens that the book is written by one of my teachers at college, and for the first few chapters I would read it remembering this fact, then forget, then suddenly remember, then forget, kind of like trying to drift off to sleep. By the middle, I was picking it up just ...more
There is essentially no action until the final couple of pages and then really no adequate explanation for the impact of the violence on the main character. I turned the last page expecting more and was startled to see that the book was finished.
Borrowed from public library. Adult fiction.
The Great War (WWI) always in the background. Young Anglo-Irish girl's point of view.
Wonderfully written, as usual, squeaky clean. Slow moving.
The Great War (WWI) always in the background. Young Anglo-Irish girl's point of view.
Wonderfully written, as usual, squeaky clean. Slow moving.
I'm having a difficult time getting into this book. Although there are pages of good story line, she then goes into pages of boring details that don't draw me in. I am going to continue reading though.
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