Customer Reviews
The most touching memoir I've ever read - By: James Powell, 02 Aug 2008 
I bought this book on a bit of a whim, but I'm so glad I did. Lisa French Blaker says at the beginning that Darfur is the best & worst she's ever seen & that certainly comes throughin the many situations she comes across during her timein Darfur. From stories of unbearable suffering to tales of incredibale kindness, the book provides an excellent understanding of how the civil war affects the ordinary people of Darfur.
The utter dependency of so many displaced people on humanitarian organisations is heartbreaking, especially when these organisations all have to pull out when the situation gets too dangerous.
It is a shame this book is not higher on the Amazon popularity list as it's the kind of book you wish everyone would readin order to understand how evenin this day & age such terrible atrocities are being committed & such suffering is allowed to go on. I read a lot of books, but I honestly cannot remember one which has touched me as much as this. A remarkable memoir.
About time..... - By: Mrs. Juliette Willett, 12 Jul 2008 Without doubt the most touching book I've read. This book is brilliantly written & is very honest & brutal.
This book answers the questions we've all wondered about peoplein poverty. It blows peoples negative comments out of the water & really reminds you that peoplein poverty are no different to us, they think & feel, laugh & love - just like us. Well done
I'm so glad that someone has finally written a book on such a 'taboo' subject. xx
From Radio 4 to reading the book - By: Leela Attfield, 07 Feb 2008 This book is being serialised on Radio 4 all this week at 9.45am (February 4 - 8) & so it is very disappointing to hear that it is not yet available to buy. It is a gripping account of an aid workerin Darfur during the fighting with the brutal Janga Weed militia, written by a doctor from New Zealand who works for Medecins Sans Frontieres. There are moving accountsin it of the treatment of children & others. It would have been good to be able to buy this book, read it & then give it to my friends who are refugees from Darfur.
