The Go-Away Bird - Tapa blanda

‘FitzGerald writes about Africa vividly, painting interior scenes and green tropical landscapes that jump out of the page...it is a funny, musical, hopeful and poignant story.’ CAPE TIMES

‘It is hard to believe this is Warren FitzGerald's first novel, so sure is his hand and so powerful the book.’ MAIL & GUARDIAN

A powerful, heart-wrenching story of friendship and love

‘This is a story about me, Clementine, and my friends: a panther called Levi, a pelican called Lola and a turtle called Jimmy. It is about dragons and goblins, my Daddy the King, my Mummy the Queen and Prince Pio my brother. At least that is the way I tell it sometimes when thoughts of the blood, the machetes, the swamp and the fear of Uncle Leonard become too hard to describe.

But that was all before I met Ashley, wonderful Ashley. Not that he would ever call himself wonderful in a million years. When he tells you his story you will see what I mean...’

Ashley Bolt – A middle-aged, loner for whom teaching singing is the only escape from his London life

Clementine Habimana – A Rwandan child refugee who witnesses the 1994 genocide at first-hand

When their two worlds collide, nothing is ever the same again...