A fresh and gripping debut about growing up in Zimbabwe during the recent years of violent change.
Andrea Eames was born in 1985. She was brought up in Zimbabwe, where she attended a Jewish school for six years, a Hindu school for one, a Catholic convent school for two and a half, and then the American International School in Harare for two years. She moved with her family to New Zealand when she was seventeen. Andrea has worked as a bookseller and editor and now lives in Austin, Texas with her husband. The Cry of the Go-Away Bird is her first novel.
In her debut novel, Andrea Eames captures brilliantly the
atmosphere of corroding trust that pervades the Coopers'
farm...Eames is a young writer with talent, whose novel tackles
matters of substance
*Guardian*
This is a touching and assured debut... Eames is definitely one to
watch
*Scotsman*
Eames is a fluent and engaging writer and this debut novel signals
real promise for her future
*Independent*
A frank and unvarnished portrait of life behind the headlines,
sharpened by details from the author's own Zimbabwean girlhood
*Daily Mail*
The Cry of the Go-Away Bird clearly draws on her own experience...
The atmosphere is reminiscent of Doris Lessing's The Grass is
Singing
*BBC Radio 4*
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