Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Subtitle: An African Childhood
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780330490221
First sentence: flickering yellow light and Van keeps the candle high, looking for snakes and scorpions and baboon spiders. Mum won't kill snakes because she says they help to keep the rats down (but she rescued a nest of baby mice from the barns and left them to grow in my cupboard, where they ate holes in the family's winter jerseys).