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Francesca Marciano was born in Rome. She worked for Italian television in New York and has written several film scripts. Since 1991 she has lived in Kenya in a house on the Indian Ocean and has made a number of documentary films in Africa. Rules of the Wild is her first novel.
When Esme decides on impulse during a Kenyan safari to leave her rich lover and make a new life for herself there, she is unaware of the big leap of faith it will take for her to reinvent herself as part of the expat community in Africa. Suddenly, her status as a rich, beautiful, Italian 20-something, living off the proceeds of her poet father's royalties, counts for nothing, and she is confronted by the harsh realities of death, wilderness, and macho war correspondents. Esme's struggles are set against the backdrop of an incestuous, sometimes glamorous, sometimes tedious, social life. Wildly romantic and beautifully written. (Kirkus UK)
