- Authorship, Fiction, Marriage, Novelists
It’s a bright afternoon in 1938 and Mary Foxe is in a confrontational mood. St John Fox, celebrated novelist, hasn’t seen her in six years. He’s unprepared for her afternoon visit, not least because she doesn’t exist. He’s infatuated with her. But he also made her up. “You’re a villain,” she tells him. ‘A serial killer . . . can you grasp that?” Will Mr Fox meet his muse’s challenge, to stop murdering his heroines and explore something of love? What will his wife Daphne think of this sudden change in her husband? Can there be a happy ending – this time?
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Intimate, prestige, spare and open-ended.
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Helen Oyeyemi
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 312
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books, Hamish Hamilton, Acantilado
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9781609986032
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 6 have read it and 30 want to.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Everything Is Illuminated 200275% alikeBoth prestige.
Both prestige.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 196174% alikeBoth prestige.
The Rum Diary 199873% alikeClose across the board.
Gingerbread 201973% alikeClose across the board.
James 202473% alikeBoth prestige.
Bluebeard 198772% alikeBoth prestige, intimate.- The late Mattia Pascal 201171% alikeBoth prestige.
Deep End 197179% alikeFilm · Both intimate.
The Favourite 201876% alikeFilm · Both prestige.