Leaving Before the Rains Come by Alexandra Fuller
The sequel to the bestselling Dont Lets 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.
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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