Never mind Miss Fox

The Barkes family was happy – Martha, Clive, and their daughter Eliza didn't lead perfect lives, but they were content and secure – until a complicated figure from Clive and Martha's past, Miss Eliot Fox, returns unexpectedly to their lives. As the family is confronted with secrets long kept, they are forced to evaluate their lives and their priorities. Even young Eliza, who had never met Eliot until the story takes place, comes into her own as an individual. Martha and Clive both make a number of poor decisions in this book, and I often found myself disgusted with them, yet I enjoyed their tumultuous chronicle, hoping all the while that they could piece themselves back together.

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