After Harry Jones takes his life in the chilling waters of Vixens Mere, not one body is recovered, but two.



Vixens Mere marina hosts a ragtag houseboat community whose lives are as tangled as their mooring ropes, each trying to escape something.



A marriage damaged by PTSD, a guilty lover, aging hippies with a secret sadness, a newcomer escaping a toxic relationship, and a kindhearted misfit whose loyalty is tested to the limit.



Under Vixens Mere tells the story of these boondock boat dwellers as they unify against investigators, vindictive exes, and anyone else who messes with them.



Kit Fielding plans and writes his novels in a motorhome at various locations around the country. The feeling of impermanence is natural to him due to his mother's traveller roots and a childhood succession of tied-cottages accommodation in different parts of England. Kit Fielding says that there was always a curiosity about what was waiting, or was lurking, just around the corner. This legacy has stayed with him to the present day and it feeds into his work.



Under Vixens Mere is a darkly humorous and deeply moving tale of community and friendship with just a sprinkling of magic.



Under Vixen's Mere is a novel that will stay with the reader long after they've finished reading it. Remarkably, these canal boat dwellers achieve a closeness, a mutual sympathy, and yet maintain their privacy and keep their secrets… Night club bouncer, pig farmer, labourer, drug dealer: they're not most novels' middle class protagonists, and yet they climb off the page with a warming humanity, dignity and personality; they love, fight, fear and hope with the best of us. I could picture and understand every one of them: Kit Fielding has done an excellent job of managing his large cast and of bringing every one of them to life. And of killing some of them



Under Vixens Mere is wide-ranging and involving. Its characters have deep roots.