Leaving Before the Rains Come

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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 memoirs. She writes warm, humorous and honest memoirs, and Leaving Before the Rains Come is another must-read * Sunday Express * What sets [the book] apart is Fuller's prose, as biting and beautiful as ever. It is often laugh-out-loud-funny too * Mail on Sunday * A poetic and powerful account of a troubled marriage, sensitive, frank and full of insight into the human condition * Daily Express * [A] hauntingly beautiful memoir * Daily Mail * Unquestionable is the lucid beauty of Fuller's prose and her courage in producing it -- Patricia Nicol, 4 stars * Metro * A trenchant yet riveting examination of what [Alexandra Fuller] calls the "culture" of the end of a marriage * The Bookseller * [Fuller] is so compassionate, funny and un-bitter, and her straight-shooting yet graceful prose is the real thing * The Spectator * This fascinating memoir is by turns hilarious and utterly heartbreaking in charting 20 years of marriage... Searingly and disconcertingly honest -- Dermot Bolger * Sunday Business Post * Leaving Before the Rains Come is a drama of expatriation, exploring in searching terms...an imagined return of the native. It carries memoir beyond candour towards a place in literature -- Lyndall Gordon * Literary Review * [A] readable, often hilarious, but always frank account * Good Book Guide * Fuller writes about making mistakes, living with grief and depression, coping with loss, with incredible insight and honesty. We raced through this book * A Little Bird (Blog) * A powerful, emotionally honest account of a relationship falling apart. -- Charlotte Heathcote * Daily Express * A riveting account of the disintegration of a marriage... Revelatory without ascribing blame. Fuller writes without bitterness or partiality, illuminating the universal by a powerful illustration of the particular. -- Jenni Russell * The Sunday Times * An absorbing interest. * Daily Telegraph *