The Fox In the Cupboard: A Memoir

By Jane Shilling

Book Overview

Named one of 2004's best books by The Spectator and The Sunday Times, The Fox in the Cupboard is a vivid and deeply personal account of the hidden, beautiful, and frequently comic world of horses and hunting in a small corner of England.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743276817
• ISBN13: 9780743276818
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Touchstone Books
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

An absorbing look at the contemporary world of fox hunting

As an American horse-mad child I consumed all the Pullein-Thompson and "Jill" pony books I could get my hands on, but the culture of riding to hounds, with its arcane language and fastidious customs, remained opaque and perplexing. Jane Shilling is an outsider herself, bringing the reader along on her journey as a middle-aged single mother attempting to learn to ride and join a hunt. While the politics of hox hunting cannot be avoided, Shilling wisely does not make them the center of her story, but rather lays out the situation as she observes it and ultimately lets the reader decide for herself.