Rules Of The Wild

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<p>In the vast space of East Africa lives a close-knit tribe of expatriates. They all meet at dinner parties; they share the same doctors and eat at the same restaurants; they sleep with each other and take the same drugs.</p><p>Set in contemporary Nairobi,<i>Rules of the Wild</i>is at once a sharp-eyed dissection of white society in modern Kenya and the moving story of a young woman, Esme, struggling to make sense of her place in Africa, and her feelings for the two men she loves - Adam, a second generation Kenyan who is the first to show her the beauty of her adopted land, and Hunter, a British journalist sickened by its horrors.</p><p>Romantic, often very funny and always compulsively readable,<i>Rules of the Wild</i>will be recognised as a classic novel about the white man in Africa, a book to set beside<i>Out of Africa</i>and<i>White Mischief</i></p>

Autorenportrait

Francesca Marciano was born in Rome. She worked for Italian television in New York and has written several film scripts. Since 1991 she has lived in Kenya in a house on the Indian Ocean and has made a number of documentary films in Africa.<i>Rules of the Wild</i>is her first novel.

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