
THE OTHER MRS. FOX
A Novel
by Alice Fenwick
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About this book
Grace Fox returns from her morning run to find her key no longer fits her own front door. A stranger answers—a woman eerily similar to her, wearing her cardigan, her paint on her knuckles. And when Grace's husband appears behind her, he looks at her like he's never seen her before in his life.
Because as far as Daniel Fox knows, he's never been married to anyone but Eleanor.
Six months earlier, Eleanor Hale—reeling from a devastating diagnosis and a life she no longer recognizes—inherits a crumbling house by the Cornish sea from a grandmother she never met. Spyglass comes with a studio already prepared for a painter she isn't, a locked room she isn't given the key to for weeks, and a husband who arrives, impossibly, right on schedule.
As Grace fights to reclaim a life an entire village insists was never hers, and Eleanor uncovers the four-generation arrangement that delivered her, unknowingly, into someone else's, both women begin to understand a devastating truth: they were never rivals. They are two branches of the same old debt—and someone has been patiently, quietly deciding for decades which woman gets to remain, and which one simply disappears.
Told across two unforgettable, unreliable voices and two timelines that collide with devastating force, The Other Mrs. Fox is a masterwork of psychological suspense—a novel about memory, inheritance, and the terrifying ease with which a life can be reassigned to someone else, one carefully placed detail at a time.
Prepare to question everything you think you know about the woman standing in your kitchen.
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