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Faith Fox
By Jane Gardam
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The story of a motherless girl named Faith and her family and close friends, all of whom are determined to see her live a happy life.
Faith's mother died in childbirth; her overworked father cannot raise his child alone; and her unconventional grandmother refuses to acknowledge the child whose birth took away the daughter she loved. And so a motley crew of family and friends converges to see that Faith is brought up correctly. The concerned parties include Faith's uncle, who runs a commune in northern England; the Tibetan refugees who have moved in with him; and the splendidly bickering paternal grandparents. What ensues is a brilliant comedy of manners set equally amidst high society and low.
Faith Fox is a story that explores the wonder of the human heart in all its thunderous eccentricity. Gardam has mastered the essence of age and youth and above all noncomformity. Her memorable characters are sure to delight.
Faith's mother died in childbirth; her overworked father cannot raise his child alone; and her unconventional grandmother refuses to acknowledge the child whose birth took away the daughter she loved. And so a motley crew of family and friends converges to see that Faith is brought up correctly. The concerned parties include Faith's uncle, who runs a commune in northern England; the Tibetan refugees who have moved in with him; and the splendidly bickering paternal grandparents. What ensues is a brilliant comedy of manners set equally amidst high society and low.
Faith Fox is a story that explores the wonder of the human heart in all its thunderous eccentricity. Gardam has mastered the essence of age and youth and above all noncomformity. Her memorable characters are sure to delight.
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Reviews for Faith Fox
Rating: 3.3793086206896557 out of 5 stars
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great book with quirky characters!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5While the title of this book is Faith Fox, Faith is not the star of the show. The real star is her deceased mother, Holly. Holly Fox died of a blood clot while giving birth to Faith and her passing devastates everyone who knew her. Holly's overly loving mother, Thomasina, can't face the newborn who killed her daughter so she runs away with a widower, not even attending Holly's funeral. Then there is Holly's overworked doctor husband, Andrew, who can't deal with a newborn emotionally or physically. He decides to cart the baby off to his brother Jack's Tibetan commune in northern England. There, Andrew reconnects with his pre-Holly love interest, Jocasta (now married to Andrew's brother, Jack). It is all of these characters that make Faith Fox so interesting. Threaded throughout the story is the push-pull struggle of north versus south England. Underlying prejudices shape certain characters and their behaviors.This is one of those books you have to read carefully or else you might miss something. Gardam's language is conversational, almost conspiratorial. It's as if she is leaning in and speaking under her breath, all in a rush to tell you all the dirty secrets.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book had a couple of wonderful chapters right smack in the middle of the book & another wonderful chapter at the end, but for the most part there were too many not particularly likable or interesting, mostly aristocratic English characters not sufficiently bound by a compelling story for me to get caught up in these few months of their lives after the one character who binds them together dies in childbirth.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This was ultimately a really frustrating, boring story. Gardam's usually incisive writing wasn’t very evident nor did I ever feel engaged in the narrative. Perhaps its major flaw was my difficulty in becoming engrossed in the action, or even enjoying the prose, if not the characters. One barrier to immersing in the story was that I lost track of why everyone was so inept and snarky, with so little genuine empathy for the father and motherless newborn baby. It’s curious that Gardam included such a numerous cast of disjointed, unlovely people. Although I persevered to the end, I must have lost the thread of the plot, because the ending seemed to just peter out.