Doris Lessing was born on October 22, 1919 in Iran and died on November 17, 2013 in London. Doris Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007, becoming the oldest person to do so. The Grass Is Singing is her first novel.
Book Review:In Rhodesia, Mary Turner is a city girl who feel trapped by her isolation in the bush. She turns to her cook for companionship while her husband works the land with no success.
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Book Review:This is the story of a 65 year old woman who falls desperately in love with younger men.
Book Review:This is the autobiographical account of Doris Lessing's formative years as a person and as a writer. It covers her childhood in Africa and the time in her life right up to her arrival in London in 1949 with her manuscript of her first novel, 'The Grass is Singing' in her possession.