Book description
The year is 1940 and Becky Taylor, a young evacuee from London, arrives at Foxes' Oven, a gloomy house in the hamlet of Offham, some two miles from the town of Arundel. There she begins a new life with Agnes Clemmer and her family. During the summer months Becky discovers…
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Foxes’ Oven is a real house, hidden among the trees on the banks of the River Arun. It’s a few miles from where I live, and I walk by it from time to time.
Whenever I do, I’m reminded of this moving and evocative wartime tale, which has echoes of The Go-Between. Michael de Larrabeiti – best known for the Borribles trilogy, an urban fantasy cult classic – drew on his own experiences as an evacuee here, during World War Two, and the setting is beautifully brought to life.
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