The Fox in the Cupboard: A Memoir

by JaneShilling (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2004

  $3.29

  With a couple of weeks' unexpected holiday and no chance of going away, journalist Jane Shilling decided to pursue a childhood ambition and learn to ride. A teacher, Mrs Rogers, was easy to find. What she hadn't reckoned on was that Mrs Rogers was also a Master of Foxhounds. So began Jane Shilling's love for hunting, and an odd, late-blooming affair . More than a book about about fox-hunting, it is about finding yourself through developing a passion for something in mid-life, when it feels like it's almost too late.

• Used

  Paperback
  2005

  $3.44

  With a couple of weeks' unexpected holiday and no chance of going away, Jane Shilling, journalist, mother of one and resident of Greenwich, decided to pursue a childhood ambition and learn to ride. A teacher - Mrs Rogers - was easy to find. What she hadn't reckoned on was that Mrs Rogers was a Master of Foxhounds. So began Jane Shilling's odd, late-blooming affair with foxhunting. This is a book about searching for the place where you belong, about developing a passion for something when you thought it was too late. Jane Shilling uses hunting as a metaphor for self-discovery; but The Fox In The Cupboard is also a journey into the hidden landscapes of the present and the past.