The Fox in the Cupboard: A Memoir - Hardcover
With a couple of weeks' unexpected holiday and no chance of going away, Jane Shilling, journalist, mother of one and resident of Greenwich, decided to pursue a childhood ambition and learn to ride. A teacher - Mrs Rogers - was easy to find. What she hadn't reckoned on was that Mrs Rogers was a Master of Foxhounds. So began Jane Shilling's "odd, late-blooming affair" with foxhunting.
This is a book about searching for the place where you belong, about developing a passion for something when you thought it was too late. Jane Shilling uses hunting as a metaphor for self-discovery; but The Fox In The Cupboard is also a journey into the hidden landscapes of the present and the past.
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"Anybody who wants to know why the English are so crazy on the subject of foxhunting -- both those who are for it and those who are against -- can hardly do better than to read Jane Shilling's funny, touching and graceful memoir, which will also tell him (or her) a lot about the well-known fact that the English are horse crazy as well, and about the abiding (and apparently changeless) charms of rural English life."-- Michael Korda, author of "Horse People"
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With a couple of weeks' unexpected holiday and no chance of going away, journalist Jane Shilling decided to pursue a childhood ambition and learn to ride. A teacher, Mrs Rogers, was easy to find. What she hadn't reckoned on was that Mrs Rogers was also a Master of Foxhounds. So began Jane Shilling's love for hunting, and an "odd, late-blooming affair". More than a book about about fox-hunting, it is about finding yourself through developing a passion for something in mid-life, when it feels like it's almost too late.
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- PublisherViking
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0670912913
- ISBN 13 9780670912919
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages352
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