Greetings from Hoxton Square, where we’re checking proofs of the next issue of SF, carefully unpacking early copies of the next hand-numbered Slightly Foxed Edition (No. 71: Nigel Slater’s Toast, decked out in a delicious toast-brown cloth), preparing for the release of Episode 53 of the Slightly Foxed Podcast on 15 April, and plotting a June trip to an intriguing little bookshop in Cambridge to toast the forthcoming quarter.
Spring is in full swing in London and, when not foxing away at our desks, we’ve been lunching beneath the trees in the Square, sniffing out wild garlic in Dulwich and enjoying the abundant elderflower of Regents Park, basking in the thought that summer can’t be too far away. And so, with warmer days in mind – and news just in from Smith Settle that copies of a new Plain Edition of one of our most summery SFEs (A House in Flanders) will be with us in May – for this month’s selection from our rich archive of back issues, we’ve been inspired to share an article from SF Issue 46, Summer 2015, in which Linda Leatherbarrow follows the secrets and fantasies of a sun-drenched youth in Alain-Fournier’s Le Grand Meaulnes.
Please find an extract from Linda’s article below, together with a link to read the full piece on the Slightly Foxed website.
With best wishes from the SF office staff
Izzy, Edie, Isabel, Jennie & Rebecca
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