Leaving Before the Rains Come

Remarkable, beautifully written and fantastically entertaining… a compulsive read * Observer *
[An] honest, powerful and moving memoir – Kate Figes * 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 – Patricia Nicol, 4 stars * Metro *
A trenchant yet riveting examination of what [Alexandra Fuller] calls the “culture” of the end of a marriage * The Bookseller *

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.

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