The Summer Before the Dark

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'This is probably the best book Doris Lessing has ever written. It would be a deprivation not to read it at once.' Economist 'An honest, perceptive, serious book.' Irish Times 'Painfully, poignantly authentic.' David Lodge, New Statesman 'A summer journey of self-discovery which ends amazingly, in an act of self-definition so searching, so acute and total, one puts down the book shaken, enlarged, in awe. It is an ostensibly simple story, simply told, developing all the way and deepening: the particular universalised in a narrative of compelling power. No wonder Mrs Lessing has been spoken of in the same breath as Nabokov and Solzhenitsyn.' Sunday Times

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