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Is Caitlin Davies story of her extraordinary twelve years in Botswana, during which she learned to endure the privations of of poverty, the rigidity of the matriarchal family structure, the joy of the birth of her daughter, and her ostracization by the people she had grown to love.
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Davies's prose is elegant and spare, her descriptions of the landscape are evocative -- Sunday Times, June 5, 2005
Her moving story encompasses the spectrum of human emotion, and is hilarious and poignant in equal measure -- Waterstone's Books Quarterly, June, 2005
devastating -- Evening Standard, June 1, 2005
About the Author
Caitlin Davies lives in north London with her daughter, Ruby. She writes regularly for the Independent, the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday.
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