The Fox by D.H. Lawrence

Nellie March and Jill Banford manage an ailing Berkshire farm at the time of the First World War, a task which is made complicated by rampages of a local fox. When a young soldier turns up and begins to wrest control of the farm from their grasp by asserting his own ideas as to its management, the two women must find ways to react to this new fox. -- Gardners

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In The Fox, two young women living on a small farm during the First World War find their solitary life interrupted. As a fox preys on their poultry, a human predator has the women in his sights.