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|title=The Cry of the Go-Away Bird

|sort=Cry of the Go-Away Bird

|publisher=Harvill Secker

|date=February 2011

|website=http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/authors/2799538/andrea-eames/

|summary=A well crafted, but imperfect, novel of a fraught Zimbabwean childhood.

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'The Cry of the Go-Away Bird' is the debut novel from Andrea Eames. It revolves around Elise, a white Zimbabwean girl living through her teens on the eve of the Mugabe-sponsored farm invasions at the beginning of this century. The author herself grew up in Zimbabwe before moving to New Zealand with her family at the age of seventeen and there is a strong sense of memoir and personal experience in the novel, which has both positive and negative effects on the narrative.