dinner and staying up all night, but does not hide the effect her mother's alcoholism had on her childhood. Fuller writes about living through a war, being white while growing up in an almost all-black country, and the death of siblings and beloved animals. Works Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness, Waterville, Me.: Thorndike 2011. , Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier, London: Picador, 2004. , Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: an African childhood, London: Picador, 2015. , Leaving Before the Rains Come. ULVERSCROFT, 2017. , See also Whites in Zimbabwe British diaspora in Africa References External links Official Website Powells.com Author interview Sketchy biography as winner of the Lettre Ulysses Award – The New York Times article on Hell's Backbone Grill, Boulder, Utah. 1969 births Living people English memoirists People from Glossop Zimbabwean memoirists Zimbabwean people of English descent English emigrants to the United States Acadia University alumni Zimbabwean exiles British women memoirists Writers about Africa British emigrants to Rhodesia 20th-century Zimbabwean writers 20th-century Zimbabwean women writers 21st-century Zimbabwean writers 21st-century Zimbabwean women writers White Rhodesian people British expatriates in Zambia British expatriates in Malawi