The Year of the Fox
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4.1 • 159 Ratings
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- $2.99
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- $2.99
Publisher Description
When Nancy Myers starts the first year of her New Life in the mountains with a wild leap of faith and a cordless drill in her back pocket, she discovers:
a) working stuff out as you go along tends to bite you in the arse
b) men who look good in gumboots are Dangerous*
c) it's a good idea to keep an eye out for neighbours when bathing naked in your sheep trough
*knees can be sexy. Who knew?
"Tait offers an auspicious and cute premise, a scorchingly hot romance, and a highly original setting." - The Booklife Prize
Nancy's having a hard time. Her career trajectory has flatlined, she's just been jilted for a prettier, more limber girl-woman, and her car is starting to look like an attractive housing option.
But Nancy has a secret weapon. Desperation.
Determined to make a fresh start (one that on no account features men of the falling-in-love-with variety), she purchases a rural property on a whim at the foot of a mountain range and attempts to settle into country life.
She finds the vista of the mountains healing. She also finds a tall, dark, and gumbooted stranger (who proves to be therapeutic in other ways).
But when she discovers her precious view is about to be taken away by a housing development, Nancy faces a hard choice. Should she play saboteur to protect her own happiness, even if it means losing the sexy-kneed man who just might possibly be the key to it?
Maybe her fresh start is actually a false start. Or maybe she's learning a thing or two about how to be a kick-ass, rule-bending woman.
"This is chick-lit at its best. Merren Tait has written a genuinely funny novel." – Readers' Favorite
If you like boy-next-door, annoyances-to-lovers romance, you'll love the first book in Merren Tait's award-winning Good Life series. Discover the outrageously funny The Year of the Fox today!
Customer Reviews
Laugh out loud
Some of the slapstick misses, but more than enough of it lands to be well worth the ride
5 stars and 🤩🥰🥳 “WOW!”
Gosh, how do I write a review that communicates how wonderful this book is? I will give it a shot, but trust me...this story is WAY better than you could ever imagine. First, it is unceasingly hilarious. The writer has great wit. The detailed descriptions are supportive and interesting, rather than tedious (as I find is often the case.) The heroine is a strong woman, but she is also flawed, as are we all. She seemed so very real to me. I thoroughly enjoyed her struggles to homestead, create a new life, learn to love herself, and to find a loving partner and community. The author managed to create a story which is as tender and compassionate as it is funny. This would make a good movie (in theory..but certainly Hollywood would muck it up.)
Excellent
I’ve read ‘Bluffing for Beginners’ and ‘the Year of the Fox’ and I absolutely loved them both. They grabbed my interest right from the first page and kept going until the very end. I don’t like stories where everything is tediously described, I always end up skipping over paragraphs of wasted words. Merren Tait doesn’t do that at all, I read every word. I love the female characters. They’re very relatable and realistic. I highly recommend! Thank you for such excellent stories.