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Stealing Water: A Secret Life in an African City

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When Tim Ecott's family uprooted from Northern Ireland in 1977 they thought they were leaving behind their troubled lives, including the physical threat to Tim's father's life posed by the IRA. They left in search of sunshine and luxury in a colonial ex-pat African setting. His parents sought the financial opportunities that would lift them out of the hum-drum suburban existence of mortgage debts and small town society. However, within six months of their arrival in Johannesburg they were bankrupt, evicted from their home, and had most of their possessions confiscated by the bailiffs. While friends and relatives in Britain imagined that they were living privileged lives, Tim and his family often went hungry. Africa had offered a new beginning, but it became a place of exile where the most relevant new experience was abject poverty.STEALING WATER is about family, and what holds them together; it is the story of how the worst of times can become the most important and valuable period of a person's life.

Author Biography

Tim Ecott is a journalist and a writer. Initially specialising in Africa for the BBC World Service, he now writes for a wide range of publications including the Economist", the Guardian" and Conde Nast Traveller".

Author Biography:

Tim Ecott is a journalist and a writer. Initially specialising in Africa for the BBC World Service, he now writes for a wide range of publications including the Economist", the Guardian" and Conde Nast Traveller".
Release date NZ
February 5th, 2009
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Pages
320
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
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None
Dimensions
129x198x22
ISBN-13
9780340936641
Product ID
2709093

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