The Fox at the Manger

Resumen del libro

For the first time since the war, the Christmas peal is ringing at St Paul's Cathedral. There is joy. There is new hope.

It is Christmas Eve, the carol service has ended, and a woman with three small boys leaves the cathedral, the children swooping like pigeons. 'Why weren't there any wild animals at the crib? Haven't they got something to give?' asked one of the children. And I heard myself say, 'Yes, they have.' Was it true, what I told them? Did I dream it? Where it came from I do not know but I seemed to remember every word, just as if I had heard it ...Outside the cathedral, the children are told the nativity story from a unique perspective: that of a fox.

Despite the scorn of the other animals, he enters the stable to offer the child a gift that only he can give.

Biografía del autor

Pseudónimo de Helen Lyndon Goff, P. L. Travers (1899-1996) nació en Australia, si bien en 1925 se trasladó a Inglaterra, donde adaptó su nuevo nombre y residió el resto de su vida. Admiradora de James M. Barrie (creador de "Peter Pan"), fue una mujer de fuerte personalidad y temperamento independiente cuyo carácter vivo y curioso la llevó a viajar por buena parte del mundo.