Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller

it is Fuller's clear vision, even of the most unpalatable facts, that gives her book its strength. the Fuller family itself 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. If you liked Dont Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight, what should you read next Dont Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood. a vibrantly personal account of growing up in a family every bit as exotic as the continent which seduced it. 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. 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. Like Frank McCourt, Fuller writes with devastating humour and directness about desperate circumstances. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she looks back with rage and love at an extraordinary family and an extraordinary time. Fuller tells a story of civil war of a quixotic battle against nature and loss and of her family's unbreakable bond with a continent which came to define, shape, scar and heal them. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight is a memoir of that time, when a schoolgirl was as likely to carry a shotgun as a satchel.

It is the story of one woman’s unbreakable bond with a continent and the people who inhabit it, a portrait lovingly. But Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight is more than a survivor’s story. Print Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African ChildhoodĪlexandra Fuller was the daughter of white settlers in 1970s war-torn Rhodesia. Alexandra Fuller writes poignantly about a girl becoming a woman and a writer against a backdrop of unrest, not just in her country but in her home.

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller