A man who preferred chaos to predictability, to revel in promise rather than wallow in regret, and who was more afraid of becoming bored than of getting lost, he taught his daughters to live as if everything needed to happen all together, all at once-or not at all. So begins Travel Light, Move Fast, the unforgettable story of Tim Fuller, a self-exiled black sheep who moved to Africa to fight in the Rhodesian Bush War before settling as a banana farmer in Zambia. “Well, there you have it,” Dad said.Īfter her father’s sudden death, Alexandra Fuller realizes that if she is going to weather his loss, she will need to become the parts of him she misses most. What do you think, Harry?” Harry gave Dad a look of utter agreement. It’s just what it is, right under your nose. “Now that I think about it, maybe there isn’t a secret to life. “Nothing comes to mind, quite honestly, Bobo,” he said, with some surprise. Harry put his paw on Dad’s lap and they sat there, the two of them, one man and his dog, keepers to the secret of life. Six months before he died in Budapest, Tim Fuller turned to his “Let me tell you the secret to life right now, in case I suddenly give up the ghost.' Then he lit his pipe and stroked his dog Harry’s head. From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and a deeply felt tribute to a life well lived

Scribbling the Cat by Alexandra Fuller