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Jane Shilling writes on books for the Daily Telegraph , Sunday Telegraph and Daily Mail , and on television for the Evening Standard . Her first book, The Fox in the Cupboard , was a critically acclaimed memoir about her midlife love affair with fox-hunting. She lives in Greenwich with her son.

The Fox in the Cupboard

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