Foxlight

Resumen del libro

From the author of October, October, winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal, comes a heartbreaking and heart-warming story about sisterhood, found family and accepting love in the most unusual and unknown places. Fen and Rey were found curled up small and tight in the fiery fur of the foxes at the very edge of the wildlands. Fen is loud and fierce and free. She feels a connection to foxes and a calling from the wild that she's desperate to return to.

Rey is quiet and shy and an expert on nature. She reads about the birds, feeds the lands and nurtures the world around her. They are twin sisters.

Different and the same. Separate and connected. They will always have each other, even if they don't have a mother and don't know their beginning.

But they do want answers. Answers to who their mother is and where she might be. What their story is and how it began.

So when a fox appears late one night at the house, Fen and Rey see it as a sign - it's here to lead them to their truth, find their real family and fill the missing piece they have felt since they were born. But the wildlands are exactly that: wild. They are wicked and cruel and brutal and this journey will be harder and more life changing than either Fen or Rey ever imagined ...

Biografía del autor

Katya Balen es codirectora de Mainspring Arts, una organización sin ánimo de lucro que organiza talleres creativos para personas autistas y neurodivergentes. Estudió Filología Inglesa y realizó un máster sobre el impacto de la literatura en el comportamiento de los niños autistas. Cuando no escribe o tiene algún proyecto entre manos, le gusta ver páginas web de refugios de acogida para perros, hornear pan y cuidar de sus plantas. Vive en Reading con su perro y su compañero, que es psiquiatra del Servicio Nacional de Salud británico. Es autora de varias novelas y libros ilustrados. Su segunda novela, Octubre, Octubre (Errata naturae, 2023), fue muy bien acogida por la crítica. El diario The Times, que la eligió Libro de la Semana, la calificó de clásico moderno y obtuvo en 2022 la Medalla Yoto Carnegiela. Con La hora del zorro ganó en 2024 el Premio Wainwright de novela juvenil, uno de los premios literarios de nature writing más prestigiosos del mundo.