
Leaving Before the Rains Come
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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
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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 *More details
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