A Black Fox Running

I have never read a novel about animals and the British countryside - with the single exception of BB's The Wild Lone - which has so moved or entranced me. Never * John Lewis-Stempel, bestselling author of Meadowland and The Running Hare *
A Black Fox Running is really extraordinary, I've not read anything like it before. Balancing and melding animal and human worlds, this is a wholly immersive, vivid and magical book * Tim Pears, author of The Horseman *
A beautiful, brooding tale ... Bleak realism is balanced by gorgeous nature writing, teeming with earthy scents and sounds, and beautiful descriptions of Dartmoor's wilderness through the seasons ... First published in 1981 but largely forgotten, Brian Carter's brilliant tale is now billed as a "lost classic" - rightly so. I can't get its brooding, gothic imagery out of my head -- Ben Hoare, Book of the Month * BBC Countryfile *
A book of strange, mesmeric power. Poised, impeccably paced and observed, and brutally unsentimental. A thrilling, urgent, almost shamanic journey into the wild - including the wilderness of our own human lives * Charles Foster, author of Being a Beast *
A wonderful book ... The prose is beautiful, and the story, though like nature pocked with horror, is beautiful too * Cynan Jones, author of Cove *
Thrilling ... An intense and transporting read * BBC Wildlife *
A breathtakingly beautiful novel, this lost classic of nature writing is the book that made me a writer * Melissa Harrison *
For those who dream of leaving behind the noise and smells of the city and breathing the clean air and adventure of the wild ... A Black Fox Running is the thing those dreams are made of * Torbay News *