Leaving Before the Rains Come by Alexandra Fuller
The sequel to the bestselling Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight Born in England and uprooted to southern Africa as a toddler by her parents, Alexandra Fuller experienced a unique upbringing – both coloured with tragedy and joy – against the backdrop of the Rhodesian wars. Following her marriage to American Charlie Ross, she leaves Africa for Wyoming in the United States. This sequel to the bestselling Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight vividly captures the highs, lows and ultimate dissolution of Fuller’s twenty-year marriage and her unbreakable tie to her African past as she searches for explanations for the present and answers for the future. Interlaced with stories from her childhood in Africa, Fuller paints a brilliant picture of an expatriate’s love for her homeland, a daughter’s acceptance of her father and the moving journey of her marriage and divorce. Poignant, candid and wistfully humorous, Leaving Before the Rains Come will resonate with anyone who has ever fallen out of love – with a person, idea or a place – and into self-acceptance and the belief that only we can save ourselves. ‘Remarkable, beautifully written and fantastically entertaining… a compulsive read’ Observer
Remarkable, beautifully written and fantastically entertaining… a compulsive read * Observer *
[An] honest, powerful and moving memoir -- Kate Figes * Mail on Sunday *
[An] urgent, eloquently fearless book * Guardian *
[A] bold, brave memoir of [Fuller’s] emancipation from the past * The Times *
Fuller doesn’t write misery memoirsShe writes warm, humorous and honest memoirs, and Leaving Before the Rains Come is another must-read * Sunday Express *
[An] honest, powerful and moving memoir -- Kate Figes * Mail on Sunday *
[An] urgent, eloquently fearless book * Guardian *
[A] bold, brave memoir of [Fuller’s] emancipation from the past * The Times *
Fuller doesn’t write misery memoirsShe writes warm, humorous and honest memoirs, and Leaving Before the Rains Come is another must-read * Sunday Express *
Alexandra Fuller is the author of four memoirs, including Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight – a New York Times Notable Book for 2002, the 2002 Booksense Best Non-Fiction book, a finalist for the Guardian’s First Book Award and the winner of the 2002 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize – and the New York Times-bestselling Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, two books of non-fiction, and the novel Quiet Until the Thaw. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, National Geographic, Granta, The New York Times, Guardian and Financial Times.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784700591 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784700592 |
| Title | Leaving Before the Rains Come |
| Author | Alexandra Fuller |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2016-02-18 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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