Mrs Fox

by Sarah Hall

Published 1 April 2014
This is the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2013. Mrs Fox is the story of a suburban couple. She is smart and successful; he adores his beautiful, unknowable wife. But the illusion of domestic bliss is laid bare when she undergoes an extraordinary physical transformation before his eyes, and he is left to salvage what he can from the wreckage of their shared life.