
Under the Camelthorn Tree
- Author Kate Nicholls
- Narrator Kate Nicholls
- Publisher Orion
- Run Time 10 hours and 8 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Memoirs, Travel writing.
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What to expect
The setting is exotic but it is also precarious. When the author is subjected to a brutal attack by three men, it threatens to destroy her and her family: post-traumatic stress turns a good mother into a woman who is fragmented and out of control.
In this powerfully written, raw and often warmly funny memoir, we witness the devastation of living with a mother whose resilience is almost broken, and how familial structures shift as the children mature and roles change. Under the CamelthornTree addresses head-on the many issues surrounding motherhood, education, independence, and the natural world; and highlights the long-lasting effect of gender violence on secondary victims. Above all, it is an inspiring account of family love, and a powerful beacon of hope for life after trauma.
Critics Review
An astonishing story … Nicholls carries us through her experiences with a searing honesty that for me was hugely educational and deeply moving.
A life lived beyond the dreams of most of us. It’s a real page-turner – Jeremy Irons
Bursting with humour, intelligence and fierce humanity, Under the Camelthorn Tree takes you on a breathtaking journey: anthropological and personal. It is an unflinchingly brave, generous book filled with the wisdom of one who has seen both the beauty and the darkness the world has to give – Sophie Dahl
A wonderfully rich and honest memoir of an extraordinary life by an extraordinary person. A book that somehow manages to be both charming and challenging, a bit like Africa herself. The writing is as light as a sonnet but it is the honesty that anchors it to reality – a special book – Tim Butcher
Under the Camelthorn Tree is remarkable, wild as a pride of lions — heartbreaking, relentlessly truthful, funny. Kate Nicholls steps into life’s beauties and hardships with a rare and extraordinary courage: you will love this book, and love Kate too – Erica Wagner, Harper’s Bazaar
‘Under The Camelthorn Tree is a breathtaking memoir written with an abundance of wit, honesty and love. Over the course of a page I found myself weeping, giggling, inspired, challenged, but never lectured to. Kate’s humour is infectious, her honesty and vulnerability emboldening and her language precise in conjuring the sights, sounds and smells of her unique journey’ – Harry Michell
A sort of Life Force personified, a whirlwind of love and motherhood and science; beautiful woman, brutally true, impossibly brave, impossibly stylish, just plain bloody impossible. Self-taught in science, this poet of the Okavango home-schooled – right through to good universities – four remarkable children in a remote camp surrounded by individually known, radio-tracked lions. After tirelessly working to rehabilitate Botswana’s rape victims, her own horrific rape and its aftermath threatened to destroy her life and the family idyll but . . . well, read the whole beautiful book to the end. You’ll never see another memoir like this
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