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published
February 15th 2003
(first published 1996)
by Carroll & Graf
binding
Paperback
isbn
0786714476
(isbn13: 9780786714476)
description
Faith Fox has led a life full of heartbreak and abandonment, lacking in simplicity and love—and she’s not even one week old. She has suffe...more
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Read in December, 2007
recommends it for:
anyone who likes loads of eccentric characters
It took me awhile to get into this book as there are a lot of characters to sort through...but by the end I was really happy to be reading it and following most but not all of these folks through their stories. Everyone except perhaps young Phillip,crazy old Madeleine, and Toots and Dolly (they deserve a book of their own...the passages about them are so vivid and believable) are busy busy busy doing exactly what they should not be doing...skirting the real issues at hand and being completely s...more
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Read in June, 2007
recommends it for:
people who like circular stories about... everything. and anglophiles.
this book goes everywhere. it's not at all what i had expected - it was more amusing, more heartbreaking, more everything. less boring. it has a feeling of needing a more grounded context than where i'm currently at, somehow, but it was intriguing all the way through.
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What an unusual book! The title character, Faith Fox, never really appears in the book. She is an orphaned infant, and the story is about all of the people who take care of her. The author won several prizes in Great Britain.
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I am loving this book! Great, solid writing and characters. Magnificant, touching and funny--reminds me of an Iris Murdoch novel, which is a very good thing. I am totally running out and reading all of her stuff.
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