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‘Chilling’ FINANCIAL TIMES ‘Tom Ripley, eat your heart out’ NPR ‘Eerie, shocking, provoking’ GILLIAN FLYNN A chilling, captivating novel about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charming, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school. Who is Francis Fox? A charismatic, young English teacher joins an elite New Jersey boarding school. Francis Fox quickly beguiles many of his students, their parents and his colleagues, while leaving others in the small town wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When Fox disappears and parts of an unidentified body are discovered in nearby woods, the community begins to ask disturbing questions about the charming, mercurial teacher, and who he might really be. A hypnotic tale of crime, complicity and revenge, Fox is an unsettling portrait of a cunning predator, which illuminates the darkest corners of the human psyche. ‘Breathless and febrile … an utterly mesmeric account of how one man’s crimes can affect an entire community’ GUARDIAN ‘Impressive and unsettling’ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ‘Rich in suspense, diabolical secrets and psychological insight’ ECONOMIST ‘Mesmerising … another masterclass from one of America's greatest writers’ MICHAEL CONNELLY, author of The Lincoln Lawyer

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‘Impressive and unsettling … engrossing … When an unidentified corpse, torn apart by animals, is discovered in Fox’s car at the bottom of a ravine, the mystery provides a narrative throughline that Oates expertly uses to toggle back and forth between the past and present’ New York Times Book Review ‘This sprawling yet immersive novel is rich in suspense, diabolical secrets and psychological insight’ Economist 'Oates views the US through a gothic prism, forming images as striking as they are disturbing … with it’s moments of chilling drama, Fox fits into the sub-genre of ‘dark academia’ sparked by Donna Tartt’s The Secret History' Financial Times ‘A prolonged dive into the murkiest of waters' TLS 'The master of domestic thrillers … Oates actively invites comparison with Nabokov’s Lolita … Fox is a tome that does more than just fill in Lolita’s gaps, it is engrossing even as it horrifies and reminds us that we cannot nor should not look away’ Big Issue ‘Gripping, disgusting and darkly comic … Oates flips the genre on its head’ The Standard 'Fox's story is inescapably abhorrent yet enthralling…Oates understands, as always, how to keep us on the hook’ Los Angeles Times 'Absolutely chilling … this is Oates at her most disturbing and masterful’ Seattle Times 'Reading Fox is like being spellbound by a hypnotist who may not wish you well, who leads you, with a deceptively gentle hand, toward that dark forest you fear … Eerie, shocking, provoking, and beautifully written, Fox is yet further proof that Oates is one of the greatest writers among us today' Gillian Flynn, author of Sharp Objects 'I can’t remember the last time I read something so (darkly, disconcertingly) addictive that yet bears so much realism and nuance and depth. Oates is a genius' Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers ‘What a gift this book is! … mesmerizing front to back – another masterclass from one of America’s greatest writers’ Michael Connelly, author of The Lincoln Lawyer

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Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award and the PEN / Malamud Award, and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her books include We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, Carthage, A Book of American Martyrs and Hazards of Time Travel. She is Professor of Humanities at Princeton University.

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