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Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

By: Alexandra Fuller
Narrated by: Bianca Amato
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Alexandra Fuller won worldwide attention, popular acclaim, and critical accolades for her memoir of her childhood in Africa, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight. This engaging follow-up explores Fuller’s parents’ childhoods and charts the trajectories of their lives through all the British couple’s experiences in war-torn Africa.

Fuller braids a multilayered narrative around the perfectly lit, Happy Valley-era Africa of her mother's childhood; the boiled cabbage grimness of her father's English childhood; and the darker, civil war- torn Africa of her own childhood. At its heart, this is the story of Fuller's mother, Nicola. Born on the Scottish Isle of Skye and raised in Kenya, Nicola holds dear the kinds of values most likely to get you hurt or killed in Africa: loyalty to blood, passion for land, and a holy belief in the restorative power of all animals. Fuller interviewed her mother at length and has captured her inimitable voice with remarkable precision. Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness is as funny, terrifying, exotic, and unselfconscious as Nicola herself.

©2011 Alexandra Fuller (P)2011 Recorded Books, LLC Motherhood Parenting & Families Relationships Women Africa Funny War Heartfelt
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Excellent sequel to Don’t let’s go to the dogs tonight. The narration is first rate.

Excellent sequel

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I was born and brought up in Zimbabwe- unfortunately, as described, as a “chicken runner”, leaving the war in 1974 as a 15 year old teenager with my parents. However, now in the cold, damp, grey skies of the UK, I have fond memories of an idilic childhood and Africa will always be in my heart.
Alexandra’s account of her childhood, so honestly and descriptively . Well done to her and to Bianca, who beautifully narrated this captivating story.

Wonderful!

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This is the third Alexandra Fuller book I have listened to and it did not disappoint. It’s poignant, funny, touching, evocative of a time and the people that one seldom encounters in life. A couple who through good times and bad rise up again and again to live out their passion and dreams.
Thanks for Alexandra for sharing her family’s incredible story

Love this book - funny, courageous, beautiful narrated

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Great listen and would recommend to others interested hearing about family life in the bush for expats in a time of

Good narrative

Good storyline

Excellent tale of Africa

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if you've read Don't Let's Go To The Dog's Tonight, then you'll enjoy this. As a child who grew up in colonial Africa, I loved it

great read

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