If the Animals of Farthing Wood had lived in London and hated each other a little bit more, their story may have been a lot like this one.
When Kate Dreyer was seven years old, she wrote a children's book optimistically titled Animal Story 1, in which a young girl rescues a fox. She bound it herself, using a cereal box as a hardback cover. Although she never completed the much-anticipated sequel, she subsequently devoured all the animal stories on which she could get her hands. More recently, her love for animals has manifested itself in other creative ways, namely painting, getting tattoos and looking out of office windows longingly. Writing has always been there in the background, but one day it tapped her on the shoulder and asked why she wasn't doing more of it. She said she didn't know, so she started doing more of it. The Fox of Richmond Park is her first `proper' novel, sparked by eight years of living in London and working in dull office jobs. Kate's ultimate dream is to write, paint and look after animals for a living. Or to be a magpie.
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