and insanity with the same stoicism they handle any other misfortune, though they do occasionally compare themselves to families with normal mothers, clean swimming pools, home baking and children free of worms. The title is taken from a line by the writer and humorist AP Herbert, 'Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, for mother will be there'. Awards 2002 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, 2002 Booksense best non-fiction book, 2004 Ulysses Prize for Art of Reportage Memoirs Books about Rhodesia Books about Zimbabwe Refugee memoirs Childhood in Africa