Leaving Before the Rains Come

[An] honest, powerful and moving memoir

Kate Figes, Mail on Sunday

Fuller doesn’t write misery memoirs. She writes warm, humorous and honest memoirs, and Leaving Before the Rains Come is another must-read

Sunday Express

What sets [the book] apart is Fuller’s prose, as biting and beautiful as ever. It is often laugh-out-loud-funny too

Mail on Sunday

[An] urgent, eloquently fearless book

Guardian

A poetic and powerful account of a troubled marriage, sensitive, frank and full of insight into the human condition

Daily Express

[A] bold, brave memoir of [Fuller’s] emancipation from the past

The Times

[A] hauntingly beautiful memoir

Daily Mail

Unquestionable is the lucid beauty of Fuller’s prose and her courage in producing it

Patricia Nicol, 4 stars, Metro

A trenchant yet riveting examination of what [Alexandra Fuller] calls the "culture" of the end of a marriage

The Bookseller

[Fuller] is so compassionate, funny and un-bitter, and her straight-shooting yet graceful prose is the real thing

The Spectator

Remarkable, beautifully written and fantastically entertaining… a compulsive read

Observer

This fascinating memoir is by turns hilarious and utterly heartbreaking in charting 20 years of marriage… Searingly and disconcertingly honest

Dermot Bolger, Sunday Business Post

Leaving Before the Rains Come is a drama of expatriation, exploring in searching terms…an imagined return of the native. It carries memoir beyond candour towards a place in literature

Lyndall Gordon, Literary Review

[A] readable, often hilarious, but always frank account

Good Book Guide

Fuller writes about making mistakes, living with grief and depression, coping with loss, with incredible insight and honesty. We raced through this book

A Little Bird (Blog)

A powerful, emotionally honest account of a relationship falling apart.

Charlotte Heathcote, Daily Express

A riveting account of the disintegration of a marriage… Revelatory without ascribing blame. Fuller writes without bitterness or partiality, illuminating the universal by a powerful illustration of the particular.

Jenni Russell, The Sunday Times