The Fox and ICatherine Raven has lived alone since the age of 15. After leaving home to escape an abusive father, she put herself through college and trained as a biologist, before building a house in a remote part of Montana, in a place as far away from other people as possible. One day, however, she realises she has company a wild fox appears in front of her house every afternoon at sundown. Against all her scientific training, Catherine grows to appreciate the

These iconoclastic

yet riddled with self-doubt

2017: James Acaster wakes hungover and alone in New York

And what's more she's done it alone - without her husband's help

and 'Auf Wiedersehen

night after night

haunted daily by terrible visions of the dead

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Snow and ice and ice and snow all around

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a timeless tale unfolds

It is a book of compelling glimpses - not only of the events which were curdling Europe at that time