The Grandmothers
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The title story, тАШThe GrandmothersтАЩ, is an astonishing tour de force, a shockingly intimate portrait of an unconventional extended family and the lengths to which they will go to find happiness and love. Written with a keen cinematic eye, the story is a ruthless dissection of the veneer of middle-class morality and convention.
тАШVictoria and the StaveneysтАЩ, takes us through 20 years of the life of a young underprivileged black girl in London. A chance meeting introduces her to the Staveneys тАУ a liberal white middle-class family тАУ and, seduced, she falls pregnant by one of the sons. As her daughter grows up, Victoria feels her parental control diminishing as the attractions of the StaveneysтАЩ world exert themselves. An honest and often uncomfortable look at race relations in London over the past few decades, Lessing reaffirms her brilliance at demonstrating the effect of society on the individual.
With these novellas, and тАШThe Reason for ItтАЩ and тАШA Love ChildтАЩ, Lessing proves once again that she is one of our most valuable and insightful living authors.
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Doris Lessing is one of the most important writers of the twentieth century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Her first novel, 'The Grass is Singing', was published in 1950. Among her other celebrated novels are 'The Golden Notebook', 'The Fifth Child' and 'Memoirs of a Survivor'. She has also published two volumes of her autobiography, 'Under my Skin' and 'Walking in the Shade'. Doris Lessing died on 17 November 2013 at the age of 94.
