Kate Brown, 45-year-old mother of four grown-up children, embarks on a summer of exploration, freedom and self-discovery, during which she rejects the sterotypes of femininity - which, like her conventional clothes, do not fit her anymore. By the same...
The diaries introduce us to Jane, an intelligent and beautiful magazine editor concerned with success, clothes and comfort. After her husband, then her mother, die from cancer she befriends ninety-something Maudie, whose poverty and squalor contrast with...
This novel tells the story of two people who want the same things - fidelity, love, family life and a stable home. They are out of line with the fashions of the 60s, but life seems to smile on them until Harriet's fifth pregnancy, when everything starts...
It is sooner than one might think. The earth's climate is much changed - it's colder than ever before in the north, and unbearably dry and hot in the south. Mara, who is seven, and her four-year-old brother Dann find themselves somewhere very strange,...
âWalking in the Shadeâ begins in 1949, as Doris Lessing arrives in London with nothing but her young son and the manuscript of her first novel. With humour and clear-sightedness, she records her battles of the next deca...
Sarah Durham, a 60-year-old playwright and founder of a leading fringe theatre, writes a play based on the journals of Julie Vairon, a beautiful 19th-century mulatto woman. The play captivates all who come into contact with it, dramatically changing every...
In this portrait of Doris Lessing's homeland, the author recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989 and 1992. The visits constitute a journey to the heart of a country whose history, landscape, people and spirit are evoked in this...