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I Never Promised You A Rose Garden (Hardcover)
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I Never Promised You A Rose Garden (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R513
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Aged fifteen and armed with a credit card stolen from his father,
Jonny Oates ran away from home and boarded a plane to Addis Ababa.
His plan? To single-handedly save the Ethiopian people from the
devastating 1985 famine. Discovering on arrival that the demand for
the assistance of unskilled fifteen-year-old English boys was
limited, he learned the hard lesson that you can't change the world
just by pure force of will. A rare political memoir from a figure
whose life before politics is every bit as gripping as their time
in the corridors of power, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
charts Oates's darkest moments as an idealistic but troubled
schoolboy alone in Ethiopia, struggling with his sexuality and
mental health; it traces his journey onwards - to Zimbabwe, where,
aged eighteen, he becomes deputy headteacher of a rural secondary
school; to South Africa in the final year of Nelson Mandela's
presidency, where he works in the first post-apartheid parliament
as the country seeks to shape a future from its bitterly divided
past; and, ultimately, to the roller-coaster ride of Britain's
first post-war coalition government, where, as Nick Clegg's chief
of staff, he plays a key role in the struggle for his own country's
future and learns important lessons about the difference between
power and duty. Shot through with a captivating warmth and humour,
this heart-stoppingly candid memoir reflects on the challenges of
balancing idealism and pragmatism, reminding us that lasting change
comes from working together rather than standing alone.
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