Faith Fox

She does fiction as it should be done, with confidence and insight Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Terribly funny & clever ... the best thing shes done Victoria Wood

Brilliant on sex, brilliant on bereavement and death, brilliant on god, brilliant on dottiness A. N. Wilson, Evening Standard

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 Hollys 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 fathers 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.