The Fox
Annie Macmanus
Available as Hardback
4 February 2027
An intelligent, incisive novel about human connection and betrayal - from Sunday Times bestselling author Annie Macmanus
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MOTHER MOTHER
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53-year-old Carmel is furious at her husband for dying. Grief-stricken and holding everything together for her adult sons, she’s never felt more alone. But as spring arrives in Dublin, she meets fellow widower Graham on a dating app. He makes her feel truly alive for the first time in years.
Across the sea in London, twenty-something Lisa devotes her life to helping people. Beneath the gleaming facades of Westminster, she cares for the homeless at work, and for her troubled sister at home. But Lisa has a secret that sustains her, and it’s growing more dangerous by the day.
When the two women’s lives collide, it brings a twisted connection that neither of them could have imagined – and cannot be undone.
“Annie Macmanus can write. The Fox is a beautifully natural but offbeat story of love and betrayal. Strangely tense and serene all at once”
Matt Haig
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Annie Macmanus
Annie Macmanus is an internationally renowned broadcaster, author and DJ. She presented the flagship new music show on BBC Radio 1 for seventeen years before leaving to concentrate on writing. Since then she has written two critically acclaimed novels, the Sunday Times bestselling Mother Mother and The Mess We’re In, whose rights have been bought for adaptation by It’s All Made Up Productions, the Liverpool-based company who produced Adolescence. Her writing has featured in the Guardian, Irish Times and Independent and she writes regularly for her Substack, Changes With Annie Macmanus.
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