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Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
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Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

By Alexandra Fuller

Synopsis

Nicola Fuller and her husband were a glamorous couple, and East Africa lay hefore thern with the promiss of all its perfect light, eyear as the British Empire waned. They had everything, including two golden childrent a girl and a boy, Tragedy visited them in Africa and they went back to England, where the anthor was born, before returning to Rhodesia and the civil war. in their old age the Fullers lived on a banana and fish farm in the Zambezi Valley, building their ramshackle dining room under the Tree of Forgerfulness, which in local custom is the place to resolve disputes.
It is in the spirit of this Forgetfulness that Nicola finally forgor - but did not forgive - all her enemics, including her daughter.
Funny, tragic, terrifying, exotic and unerly nnaclf conscions, this is a story of survival and madness love and war, passion and compassion.
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