The sequel to the international bestseller Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight.
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.
Remarkable, beautifully written and fantastically entertaining… a
compulsive read
*Observer*
[An] honest, powerful and moving memoir
*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
*Metro*
A trenchant yet riveting examination of what [Alexandra Fuller]
calls the “culture” of the end of a marriage
*The Bookseller*
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