It's an ordinary afternoon in 1938 for the celebrated American novelist St John Fox, hard at work in the study of his suburban home until his long-absent muse wanders in. Mary Foxe (beautiful, British and 100% imaginary) is in a playfully combative mood. "You're a villain," she tells him. 'A serial killer ...can you grasp that?" Mr Fox has a predilection for murdering his heroines. Mary is determined to change his ways. And so she challenges him to join her in stories of their own devising, and the result is an exploration of love like no other. It isn't long before Mrs Daphne Fox becomes suspicious, and St John is offered a choice: a life with the girl of his dreams, or a life with an all-too-real woman who delights him more than he cares to admit. Can there be a happy ending this time? Mr Fox is a magical book, as witty as it is profound in its truths about how we learn to be with one another.

作者：

海伦•奥耶耶美（Helen Oyeyemi），1984年出生于尼日利亚，成长于伦敦，2013年被著名文学杂志《格兰塔》评选为英国zui佳青年小说家之一，2017年获“美国笔会文学奖”。她的作品风格奇幻，充满魔幻元素，常常反映性别、种族等问题。她18岁时就写出了“令英国文学圈惊诧”的处女作《遗失翅膀的天使》（The Icarus Girl），此后更奉献出《翻转屋》（The Opposite House）、《白色是女巫的颜色》（White is for Witching）、《不存在的情人》（Mr. Fox）、《不是你的就不是你的》（What is not Yours is not Yours）等佳作。

媒体说：她承受着她这个年纪不该有的才华。

译者：

苏十，中国人民大学文学学士，美国亚利桑那大学东亚研究硕士，曾校译《小小巴黎书店》《另一个布鲁克林》。