The Fox’s Walk
The Fox’s Walk by Annabel Davis-Goff, published by Harcourt in 2004, is a first edition novel comprising 319 pages. This work follows the journey of Alice, a perceptive pre-adolescent girl who navigates her traditional Anglo-Irish family dynamics while living at the country estate Ballydavid in County Waterford. After the death of her uncle during World War II, Alice becomes attuned to the whispered conversations surrounding the Irish Nationalist Cause, providing a backdrop to her coming-of-age experience.
Readers will find a rich tapestry of relationships and political intrigue as Alice eavesdrops on the complex interactions within her household, including figures like O’Neil, the major domo, and the enigmatic Sonia, a white Russian mystic. The narrative intertwines Alice’s personal growth with the historical context of Roger Casement’s activism, reflecting the tensions of the time. As Alice grapples with her family’s past and the shifting societal landscape, she ultimately seeks to define her own moral compass, making choices that resonate with her understanding of right and wrong.
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Our narrator Alice, a precocious pre-adolescent, puts together the world from what she can overhear in her traditional Anglo-Irish family. Sent to live at the country estate Ballydavid, County Waterford with her widowed Grandmother and Great Aunt after the death of a beloved uncle at the Front. During the war, Alice eavesdrops on the hushed conversations about the ferment among the locals in the Irish Nationalist Cause. Simultaneously, we get the story of Roger Casement’s activities on behalf of the Cause. Though the Casement and Alice’s paths never truly cross, the complex machinations of Casement mirror the sometimes mysterious relationships in Alice’s household: O’Neil, the major domo whose Jewish arriviste, Nicolas Rowe, an Irish Catholic whose politics are diametrically opposed to those of Alice’s family, and the mysterious Sonia, a white Russian mystic who inveigles her way into the household. In the end, Alice works out the puzzle of her society in her own way, and chooses the future, and what she feels is morally right, rather than cling to the dictates of the past.
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