Den
On sale
11th February 2027
Price: £18.99
‘Once I’ve taken his house from him, I will be entering through the front door.’
A fox watches Ben and his family through their huge garden windows, just out of sight. Ben has it all – warmth, safety, beautiful shining taps – and yet he’s unhappy. The whole family is. The fox thinks he’d do a better job: of being Ben, of being in that house.
One fox becomes two and then four – just like the family inside. They give themselves the same names. They come up with a plan.
But the closer their dreams become, the clearer it is that something’s not quite right. There’s something out there, in the shadows. There are strange happenings inside the house, inside their heads. There are things they can’t forget.
Being a human and staying a human is much more complicated than it seems.
Haunting and full of heart, Den is a strikingly inventive and beautiful novel about family, grief and what it means to make a home.
PRAISE FOR DEN:
‘At once elegiac and elegant, spiky and tender, surreal and painfully familiar, Den is a moving meditation on the lives we choose and the selves we can’t escape from.’ – KRYSTELLE BAMFORD
A fox watches Ben and his family through their huge garden windows, just out of sight. Ben has it all – warmth, safety, beautiful shining taps – and yet he’s unhappy. The whole family is. The fox thinks he’d do a better job: of being Ben, of being in that house.
One fox becomes two and then four – just like the family inside. They give themselves the same names. They come up with a plan.
But the closer their dreams become, the clearer it is that something’s not quite right. There’s something out there, in the shadows. There are strange happenings inside the house, inside their heads. There are things they can’t forget.
Being a human and staying a human is much more complicated than it seems.
Haunting and full of heart, Den is a strikingly inventive and beautiful novel about family, grief and what it means to make a home.
PRAISE FOR DEN:
‘At once elegiac and elegant, spiky and tender, surreal and painfully familiar, Den is a moving meditation on the lives we choose and the selves we can’t escape from.’ – KRYSTELLE BAMFORD
Reviews
At once elegiac and elegant, spiky and tender, surreal and painfully familiar, Den is a moving meditation on the lives we choose and the selves we can't escape from.