Leaving Before the Rains Come

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Justine Willett

Book of the Week: Alexandra Fuller - Leaving Before the Rains Come: "They didn't roar and battle and laugh"

"He looked good on a horse"

"They didn't roar and battle and laugh"

Alexandra Fuller - Leaving Before the Rains Come

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Alexandra Fuller - Leaving Before the Rains Come, "They didn't roar and battle and laugh"

Tracy-Ann Oberman reads the new memoir by award-winning author Alexandra Fuller.

Alexandra struggles to keep afloat, when it seems her risk-free life in the US was an illusion. Read by Tracy-Ann Oberman.

Alexandra struggles to keep afloat, when her safe and risk-fee life in the US turns out to have been an illusion.

In a follow-up to the award-winning memoir "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight", Alexandra Fuller charts her temptestuous marriage to the man she thought would save her from the chaos of life in Africa.

In 1992, after her parents had seen off all other suitors, Alexandra Fuller married Charlie Ross, a charismatic adventurer and polo player, and the only man who seemed able to stand up to her parents. In this witty, frank and courageous memoir, Fuller charts their twenty tempestuous years together.
 
Read by Tracy-Ann Oberman.  

Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Justine Willett

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February  2015.

Book of the Week: Alexandra Fuller - Leaving Before the Rains Come

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Alexandra Fuller's memoir charting the author's tempestuous marriage.

Alexandra Fuller's memoir charting the author's tempestuous marriage. Read by Tracy-Ann Oberman.

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