receptiveness…. Mrs. Lessing has always been more than a regional moral messenger; she is a prospector into the minds, spirit and senses of all, imaginatively at home anywhere.”
“A magnificent book, quite staggering in its penetration of the ordinary working-class Londoner’s nature.”
ALSO BY DORIS LESSING
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