Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Published on 23. August 2011
256 pages
978-1-101-51770-3 (ISBN)
Description
A story of survival and war, love and madness, loyalty and forgiveness, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness is an intimate exploration of Fuller's parents, whom readers first met in Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, and of the price of being possessed by Africa's uncompromising, fertile, death-dealing land. We follow Tim and Nicola Fuller hopscotching the continent, restlessly trying to establish a home. War, hardship, and tragedy follow the family even as Nicola fights to hold on to her children, her land, her sanity. But just when it seems that Nicola has been broken by the continent she loves, it is the African earth that revives and nurtures her. Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness is Fuller at her very best.
Alexandra Fuller is the author of several memoirs: Travel Light, Move Fast, Leaving Before the Rains Come, and Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight.
Alexandra Fuller is the author of several memoirs: Travel Light, Move Fast, Leaving Before the Rains Come, and Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight.
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Alexandra Fuller
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
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06/2012
Penguin USA
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Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
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08/2011
Penguin Press
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Alexandra Fuller was born in England in 1969. In 1972, she moved with her family to a farm in southern Africa. She lived in Africa until her midtwenties. In 1994, she moved to Wyoming.
Content
- Intro
- Praise for COCKTAIL HOUR UNDER THE TREE OF FORGETFULNESS
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Cast of Main Characters
- PART ONE
- Nicola Fuller of Central Africa Learns to Fly
- Nicola Huntingford Is Born
- Nicola Fuller and the Fancy Dress Parties
- Roger Huntingford's War
- Nicola Huntingford Learns to Ride
- Nicola Fuller of Central Africa Goes to Her High School Reunion
- Nicola Huntingford, the Afrikaner and the Perfect Horse
- Nicola Huntingford and the Mau Mau
- PART TWO
- Tim Fuller of No Fixed Abode
- Nicola Fuller and the Perfect House
- Nicola Fuller in Rhodesia: Round One
- Nicola Fuller in England
- Nicola Fuller in Rhodesia: Round Two
- Olivia
- Nicola Fuller and the End of Rhodesia
- PART THREE
- Nicola Fuller of Central Africa and the Tree of Forgetfulness
- Nicola Fuller of Central Africa at Home
- Acknowledgments
- APPENDIX - Nicola Fuller of Central Africa: The Soundtrack
- GLOSSARY
