If poor Harry Jones hadn’t lowered himself into the water one freezing winter’s night, a long-buried secret would never have come to the surface.
If …
Big Ed and Milly had been able to have children, Karen hadn’t longed for love and romance, Lorrie hadn’t finally ditched Petra, Dinah hadn’t found out the truth about Barry, Jed hadn’t dealt drugs and got Anna pregnant, Carl Thomson hadn’t come looking for him, and Moses hadn’t heard the commotion …
then there would be no story of Vixens Mere to tell.
Kit Fielding plans and writes his novels in a motorhome at various locations around the country.
The feeling of impermanence is natural to him due to his mother’s traveller roots and a childhood succession of tied-cottages accommodation in different parts of England.
Kit Fielding says that there was always a curiosity about what was waiting, or was lurking, just around the corner. This legacy has stayed with him to the present day and it feeds into his work.
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My thoughts: This is the story of the residents of Vixens Mere, a mooring of canal boats next to a farm, Foxes Farm. Over the course of a winter the residents’ lives will be altered by death, by secrets coming to the surface (quite literally in one case) and dark deeds done for the right reasons.
Big Ed and Milly are a permanent fixture on the canal, they’ve lived there since a life of travelling came to an end, their son Moses lives with them, sometimes he helps his dad, sometimes he goes to school. A project about his family tree stirs up old worries for his parents.
There are several other boats moored alongside them, some permanent, some only there for a season. Their lives interweave and connect over the years and come together once more, some after a long time.
It’s an interesting mix of people, from Lorrie, who’s fleeing a long term relationship gone bad, to Jed who has always lived on his barge, first with his parents and now with girlfriend Anna, then there’s Pete, who works at the pig farm and lives on a boat called Saddleback (a breed of pig – although it was called that before he moved in), then there’s Karen and her deeply troubled former soldier husband Harry, they come by once a year.
Finally there’s Brodie and his dog Mick, Scottish but raised on the road by his grandmother, he hasn’t come by Vixens Mere in some time, but his presence is a catalyst for some of the secrets of this quiet backwater to be revealed.
It was an interesting read, with an intriguing mix of characters, all from different walks of life, living in this quiet place.
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