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LEAVING BEFORE THE RAINS COME

Alexandra Fuller

Leaving Before the Rains Come showcases Fuller at the peak of her abilities

As her marriage collapses, the author of the international bestseller Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight relearns the fearless ways of her father to find her own true north. Standing in the wreckage of her marriage, in her adopted country America, Fuller revisits the continent she loves and finds in her father's harsh, simple and uncompromising ways the key to her salvation. Casting a fresh eye on her parent's boisterous strengths and debilitating weaknesses, painting a vivid picture of America at the end of decades of false certainty and security, and revealing her Africa, vital and resilient, Leave Before the Rains Come is an astonishment - a memoir of such grace and intelligence, wit and courage that only Alexandra Fuller could have written it. 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 mid-twenties. In 1994, she moved to Wyoming, where she now resides. She is the author of the bestseller Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Scribbling the Cat, The Legend of Colton H. Bryant and Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness.

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Book Published 2015-02-01 by Penguin

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[A] bold, brave memoir of [Fuller's] emancipation from the past'

Fuller doesn't write misery memoirs. She writes warm, humorous and honest memoirs, and Leaving Before the Rains Come is another must-read'

It's rare that a life can bear more than one, let alone three, memoirs, but such is the power of Alexandra Fuller's story and her way of telling it.

[Fuller] is so compassionate, funny and un-bitter, and her straight-shooting yet graceful prose is the real thing'

Leaving Before the Rains Come is a sadder and wiser book than its predecessor, with hints of the darkness that caused Ms Fuller to flee. But so gifted is her storytelling, so deft and light her touch, that the reader ends the book with hope'

Powerful, raw, and painful, Fuller's writing is so immediate, so vivid that whether she's describing the beauty of Zambia or the harrowing hours following a devastating accident, she leaves the reader breathless. Another not-to-be-missed entry from the gifted Fuller.

[An] urgent, eloquently fearless book'

What sets [the book] apart is Fuller's prose, as biting and beautiful as ever. It is often laugh-out-loud-funny too'

Harvill Secker

This is an authentic and involving piece of work which showcases Fuller's exceptional skills as a writer'

Remarkable, beautifully written and fantastically entertaining a compulsive read'

Leaving Before the Rains Come, the story of her crumbling marriage, is one of the gutsiest memoirs I've ever read. And the writingoh my God, the writing. It's more than a little daunting to review a book so gorgeously wrought that you stop, time and again, just to marvel at the language.

Deeply introspective, fiercely intelligent, and free of bitterness or self-pity, Fuller's insights about independence, authenticity, and the delicate line between madness and fevered inspiration will resonate with many.

Random House Random House Canada

Fuller's talent as a storyteller makes this memoir sing.

A trenchant yet riveting examination of what [Alexandra Fuller] calls the culture of the end of a marriage'

The rich narration of Fuller's upbringing, sensibility, and loneliness make clear that she remains one of the most gifted and important memoirists of our time.

Unquestionable is the lucid beauty of Fuller's prose and her courage in producing it'

Les Deux Terres

Alexandra Fuller has written a divorce memoir for people who may not like divorce memoirs...The book is a deeply felt, beautifully written account of the emotional challenges of forging any kind of relationship between husband and wife, boyfriend and girlfriend, parent and child. It also is a rich portrayal of life in Africa and a raw chronicle about the double-edged sword of independence.

Alexandra Fuller writes about Africa with a fierce, uncompromising passion like Isak Dinesen's love for that same continent, like Joan Didion's for California, like Faulkner's for Mississippi.

A poetic and powerful account of a troubled marriage, sensitive, frank and full of insight into the human condition'

[A] hauntingly beautiful memoir'