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Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Biography & Memoir, International Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9781529931624
Published: August 2025
Imprint: Vintage
Page Extent: 272
Format: Paperback
RRP 295.00

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Alexandra Fuller

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** PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST 2025 **
The story of a mother grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child - from the bestselling memoirist of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

'Truly extraordinary' HELEN MACDONALD

'A mesmeric celebration... Will help others surviving loss - surviving life'
NEW YORK TIMES

It's midsummer 2018, and Alexandra Fuller is about to turn fifty, but feels like her life is coming apart. She vows to get herself back on an even keel. And then - suddenly and incomprehensibly - her son Fi, at twenty-one years old, dies in his sleep.

No stranger to loss - young siblings, a parent, her home country of Zimbabwe - Alexandra is nonetheless levelled. At the same...

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Alexandra Fuller

Alexandra Fuller

Alexandra Fuller is the author of four memoirs, including Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight – a New York Times Notable Book for 2002, the 2002 Booksense Best Non-Fiction book, a finalist for the Guardian’s First Book Award and the winner of the 2002 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize – and the New York Times-bestselling Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, two books of non-fiction, and the novel Quiet Until the Thaw. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, National Geographic, Granta, The New York Times, Guardian and Financial Times.

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