Exquisitely illustrated by Danielle Callaghan, David Greaves children's book The Homesick Fox is a melancholy tale with an uplifting ending, exploring feelings of isolation and loneliness in an urban fox which has lost its way and yearns for its spiritual home: the countryside. At last the fox can bear his solitude no more, and without knowing where his paws will take him, sets off on a journey into the night.A poetic, multi-layered story, The Homesick Fox evokes ‘the call of the wild’, a mysterious and wondrous thing, but will also appeal to adults working in the ‘Big Smoke’ and pining for the quietude and slower rhythms of country life.