![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/PageTurners.jpg?resize=400%2C79\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t Let\u2019s Go To The Dogs Tonight “- An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Alexandra Fuller gives an insight into growing up within a dysfunctional family in Rhodesia\/Zimbabwe at the time of the bush wars. She tells us about her experiences – many of which are harrowing. She gives details of an unruly and chaotic life; her mother was an emotionally remote woman, who was eventually diagnosed with manic depression. However, the author tells her story with humour and honesty and her memoirs are fascinating. It does include references to the family\u2019s racism and their attitude to the black community in which they were living.<\/p>\n Most of the group felt that the book was well written and that the author recalled her childhood memories in detail. We talked about the lives of the family and the author\u2019s relationship with other family members. A few of our group had lived as ex-pats in African countries and this led to a full discussion about their experiences while living there. It was generally felt, however, that although Fuller had lived with and<\/p>\n accepted apartheid as a child, she made no reference in the book to it being unacceptable now that she is an adult and living in another country. The book received mixed reviews from the group and these views were reflected by our overall scoring a of 6\/10.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cDon\u2019t Let\u2019s Go To The Dogs Tonight “- An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller Alexandra Fuller gives an insight into growing up within a dysfunctional family in Rhodesia\/Zimbabwe at the time of the bush wars. She tells us about her experiences – many of which are harrowing. She gives details of an unruly and chaotic life; her mother was an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6cWjO-3dk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11924,"url":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=11924","url_meta":{"origin":12358,"position":0},"title":"Let\u2019s Not Go To The Dogs Tonight","author":"Alan Williams","date":"8th July 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"OFF THE SHELF Let\u2019s not go to the dogs tonight. by Alexandra Fuller. Alexandra Fuller writes her memoirs of her life as a child in Rhodesia with her somewhat dysfunctional family. It is an amazing childhood, and she clearly evokes that life for the reader. I think we can all\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Off The Shelf"","block_context":{"text":"Off The Shelf","link":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?cat=347"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11604,"url":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=11604","url_meta":{"origin":12358,"position":1},"title":"A ‘Poem’ by Bill Daniel","author":"Alan Williams","date":"6th May 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"SATNAV A 'Poem' by Bill Daniel (not Pam Ayres, as originally thought) I have a little Satnav, it sits there in my car. A Satnav is a driver's friend, it tells you where you are. I have a little Satnav, I've had it all my life, it's better than the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General Interest Articles"","block_context":{"text":"General Interest Articles","link":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?cat=334"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11560,"url":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=11560","url_meta":{"origin":12358,"position":2},"title":"April 2022 Book Choice","author":"Alan Williams","date":"4th May 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"While Paris Slept by Ruth Druart Nobody had time to sleep at the latest Page Turners meeting as the latest novel was vociferously discussed. The book is set in two timelines, 1944 and 1953, and tells the story of a baby given away by a mother as she boards the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Wenvoe Page Turners"","block_context":{"text":"Wenvoe Page Turners","link":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?cat=41"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12869,"url":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=12869","url_meta":{"origin":12358,"position":3},"title":"Lucky Dip Books","author":"Alan Williams","date":"1st February 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Various Books During our December meeting each member placed a book into a Lucky Dip and the individual books drawn by the Page Turners were read and summarised for our January meeting as shown below: Leonard And Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession This is the story of two ordinary single\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Wenvoe Page Turners"","block_context":{"text":"Wenvoe Page Turners","link":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?cat=41"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8715,"url":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=8715","url_meta":{"origin":12358,"position":4},"title":"Where the Crawdads Sing\u2019 by Delia Owens","author":"Alan Williams","date":"29th November 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Where the Crawdads Sing\u2019 by Delia Owens After the success of last month\u2019s inaugural Page Turners Walking Books meeting, the group met outside once more, following appropriate social distancing guidelines, to discuss their latest book. The venue this time was Cold Knap in Barry. There were spectacular views across the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Wenvoe Page Turners"","block_context":{"text":"Wenvoe Page Turners","link":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?cat=41"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/crawdads.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9788,"url":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=9788","url_meta":{"origin":12358,"position":5},"title":"Walking\u00a0 Books","author":"Alan Williams","date":"1st June 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"THE PAGE TURNERS Walking\u00a0 Books As Welsh Government Covid restrictions meant the Page Turners could not meet inside, it was decided to have a meeting in the fresh air and walk \u2018n\u2019 talk. The Page Turners met over Cold Knap, starting off beneath the railway tunnel as the rain pelted\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Wenvoe Page Turners"","block_context":{"text":"Wenvoe Page Turners","link":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?cat=41"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Picture1-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12358"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12359,"href":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12358\/revisions\/12359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n
\n
\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"