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Mr. Fox (novel)Mr. Fox is a 2011 novel by British author Helen Oyeyemi, published by Picador in the UK and by Riverhead Books in the US.

In an interview with Bookforum, Oyeyemi talked about Mr. Fox's relationship to her other work, saying: "Then there are the books that are like games. Mr. Fox and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours fit in there. And I think those are the ones that I love�the ones I think are useless and not contributing anything. Because of that desire to be happy, and that desire to play, but also, they feel like my own, and not just projects. These are the books where I feel I�m developing toward something, some style. And then I can tell a story that isn�t even a retelling but is my own thing. I�m curious to see what that will be like when I get there."

Plot
Mr. Fox is a beloved writer with a bad habit. He can't stop killing the heroines in his novels in most diabolical fashions. Mary wants to help, as much for Mr. Fox's sake as for the sake of the women in his stories. The complication is that Mary isn't exactly real; she's Mr. Fox's muse and a creation of his mind. But this doesn't stop Mary from challenging Mr. Fox to a game of stories where he becomes both author and subject. Meanwhile, Mr. Fox's wife Daphne is being neglected, and as her husband spends even more time in his study than usual she begins to suspect something is wrong, and that he may possibly even be having an affair. Ultimately, Daphne forces her own way into Mr. Fox and Mary's game.

Mr. Fox is forced to choose between a world of pure imagination with a not-quite-real muse who he loves nonetheless, and his very real wife who he is always forgetting just how much he loves.

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