# Rules of the Wild

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- Book: [Rules of the Wild](https://www.bookquiver.com/francesca-marciano/rules-of-the-wild) ([Rules of the Wild.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/francesca-marciano/rules-of-the-wild.md))
- Authors: [Francesca Marciano](https://www.bookquiver.com/francesca-marciano)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9927-469-8
- Pages: 320
- Published: 1999-05-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the vast space of East Africa lives a close-knit tribe of expatriates. They all meet at dinner parties; they share the same doctors and eat at the same restaurants; they sleep with each other and take the same drugs. Set in contemporary Nairobi, Rules of the Wild is at once a sharp-eyed dissection of white society in modern Kenya and the moving story of a young woman, Esme, struggling to make sense of her place in Africa, and her feelings for the two men she loves - Adam, a second generation Kenyan who is the first to show her the beauty of her adopted land, and Hunter, a British journalist sickened by its horrors. Romantic, often very funny and always compulsively readable, Rules of the Wild will be recognised as a classic novel about the white man in Africa, a book to set beside Out of Africa and White Mischief