With an introduction by Anne Enright.
Alexandra Fuller was born in England in 1969. She moved to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) with her family when she was two. After that country's war of independence (1980) her family moved first to Malawi and then Zambia. She came to the United States in 1994. Her book Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize in 2002 and a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award. Scribbling the Cat won the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage in 2006.
Like Frank McCourt, Fuller writes with devastating humour and
directness about desperate circumstances . . . tender,
remarkable
*Daily Telegraph*
A book that deserves to be read for generations
*Guardian*
Perceptive, generous, political, tragic, funny, stamped through
with a passionate love for Africa . . . [Fuller] has a faultless
hotline to her six-year-old self
*Independent*
This enchanting book is destined to become a classic of Africa and
of childhood
*Sunday Times*
Wonderful book . . . a vibrantly personal account of growing up in
a family every bit as exotic as the continent which seduced it . .
. the Fuller family itself [is] delivered to the reader with a
mixture of toughness and heart which renders its characters
unforgettable
*Scotsman*
Her prose is fierce, unsentimental, sometimes puzzled, and
disconcertingly honest . . . it is Fuller's clear vision, even of
the most unpalatable facts, that gives her book its strength. It
deserves to find a place alongside Olive Schreiner, Karen Blixen
and Doris Lessing
*Sunday Telegraph*
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