DONT LETS GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT – ALEXANDRA FULLER-ANNE ENRIGHT

With an introduction by author Anne Enright. Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book award, a story of civil war and a family s unbreakable bond. How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to. As the daughter of white settlers in war-torn 1970s Rhodesia, Alexandra Fuller remembers a time when a schoolgirl was as likely to carry a shotgun as a satchel. This is her story – of a civil war, of a quixotic battle with nature and loss, and of a family s unbreakable bond with the continent that came to define, scar and heal them. Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, Alexandra Fuller s classic memoir of an African childhood is suffused with laughter and warmth even amid disaster. Unsentimental and unflinching, but always enchanting, Don t Let s Go to the Dogs Tonight is the story of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time.