House Of Stone
The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe



Harper Collins
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"A textured, multifaceted story that says much about Zimbabwe and how it got to where it is today.... "House of Stone" succeeds – in some ways better than any other recent book about Zimbabwe – in describing the trauma of a land claimed by two peoples and the bitter, lingering legacy of colonialism"
Christian Science Monitor 11 September 2007
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“ Lamb has a remarkable pair of stories to tell, and does so extremely well. One of her strengths is the weight of direct quotation she uses: whole italic paragraphs of speech. It helps, more than any amount of her competent journalistic colour-writing, to bring Nigel and Aqui to life on the page, to give them their own voices. Aqui's habit of metaphor and Nigel's yarpie-isms - he has the tic of saying 'a hang of a', for 'a hell of a', for example - give you a good sense of who they are. As much as their stories are representative, they are also individual. … I finished Lamb's book in a cafe in central London on a sunny Saturday lunchtime and reeled away in a positive rapture of distress that people could be so awful to one another.”
Sam Leith in the Spectator

'“Lamb's achievement... in (her) captivating personal history of Zimbabwe's recent past ... is to present the modern story of Zimbabwe through convincing portraits from across the racial divide. It takes great insight and considerable imaginative powers to describe the unfolding story from both sides, but this she manages with complete conviction….One of the most memorable passages relates her own experiences of travelling undercover (foreign media are banned). It's wonderful storytelling.”
Anthony Sattin, Travel Books of the Year in The Sunday Times

“That there are two sides to every story was never better demonstrated than in this riveting book”.
Val Hennessy, Daily Mail

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