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A glorious new voice on Africa, Robyn Scott's adventures growing up in Botswana in a loving but eccentric family will be one of the season's most talked-about memoirs.
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"...a fabulous read, rollicking, good-humoured and intensely sane... Scott's memoir is a worthy successor to The Flame Trees of Thika, Elspeth Huxley's bright 1959 memoir of a Kenyan childhood, or Jon and Rumer Godden's evocative and gentle memoir of a childhood on the subcontinent, Under the Indian Sun."
-- Alexandra Fuller, Globe and Mail, 7 June 2008
"If you can't get to the sun and want an uplifting experience nonetheless, Robyn Scott's Twenty Chickens for a Saddle might be just the tonic... This is the nearest thing you will get to Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals in Africa and it is just as enchanting." -- Giles Foden, Conde Nast Traveller, April 2008
"Twenty Chickens for a Saddle is such a quietly bravura performance that it is difficult to believe this is Scott's first book. The sounds, sights, scents and textures of Botswana tumble from her pages with unhurried ease, conjuring an Enid Blyton-esque adventure of a childhood and the colourful, life-filled characters it embraced."
-- Juliet Nicolson, Telegraph Review, June 7 2008.
'Beautifully written and lovingly told, Scott's book has the makings to be "Out of Africa" meets "Running with Scissors".'
-- Marcus Mabry, The Scotsman,May 24th 2008
Plenty of quirky, idyllic tales of eccentric relatives and winsome innocence.
-- The Sunday Times, May 18th, 2008
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-- Alexandra Fuller, Globe and Mail, 7 June 2008
"If you can't get to the sun and want an uplifting experience nonetheless, Robyn Scott's Twenty Chickens for a Saddle might be just the tonic... This is the nearest thing you will get to Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals in Africa and it is just as enchanting." -- Giles Foden, Conde Nast Traveller, April 2008
"Twenty Chickens for a Saddle is such a quietly bravura performance that it is difficult to believe this is Scott's first book. The sounds, sights, scents and textures of Botswana tumble from her pages with unhurried ease, conjuring an Enid Blyton-esque adventure of a childhood and the colourful, life-filled characters it embraced."
-- Juliet Nicolson, Telegraph Review, June 7 2008.
'Beautifully written and lovingly told, Scott's book has the makings to be "Out of Africa" meets "Running with Scissors".'
-- Marcus Mabry, The Scotsman,May 24th 2008
Plenty of quirky, idyllic tales of eccentric relatives and winsome innocence.
-- The Sunday Times, May 18th, 2008
Born in 1981, Robyn Scott spent her childhood in Botswana before beginning her formal education at the age of fourteen in Zimbabwe. Moving to New Zealand for her undergraduate degree, she studied Bioinformatics at the University of Auckland. In 2004, she was awarded a Gates Scholarship to Cambridge University, where she took an MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise and studied the pricing of medicines in developing countries. Robyn lives in London, but visits and works regularly in southern Africa.
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- PublisherPenguin Group USA
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0143143069
- ISBN 13 9780143143062
- BindingAudio CD
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