Alfred and Emily - Tapa dura

A deeply personal meditation on family, parents and children, war and memory takes the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Grass Is Singing back to her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents led in the wake of the devastation of the Great War. 20,000 first printing.

Doris Lessing was born in 1919. Her first novel, THE GRASS IS SINGING, was published in 1950, and since then she has gone on to publish more than fifty books. Having been made A Companion of Honour and A Companion of Literature, she has been awarded the David Cohen Memorial Prize, Spain s Prince of Asturias Prize, the International Catalunya Award and the S.T. Dupont Golden PEN Award for a Lifetime s Distinguished Service to Literature. In 2007 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. She lives in North London.