The Cry of the Go-Away Bird - Andrea Eames (2011)
We get to meet Elise, who is growing up in Zimbabwe in the 1990s. Living on a farm with her mother and stepfather, life at first is simple with school, and weekends and days off exploring and hanging out with friends. As the political situation changes, tensions begin to rise amongst the white farmer as farm takeovers become more and more frequent. Friends and family begin to leave, and those that stay are threatened by locals, it becomes a tense place to live.
I had been reading Andreas blog for a while, and was looking forward to the release of this book, and after a bit of a slow start, once I got into it I enjoyed it a lot, and enjoyed reading a novel about an area of the world that I don't know a lot about. 4/5
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