WRITERS’ CHOICE

Wild Lone, the story of a fox, by ‘BB’ – the pen name of Denys Watkins-Pitchford – sent me outside in an entirely new way. It still does. The book, first published in 1977, marvels at how much we miss by lying in bed at night, and takes you into the countryside in the company of a fox. This is a real fox, not a picture-book creature. BB was an acute observer and