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This novel tells the story of two people who want the same things - fidelity, love, family life and a stable home. They are out of line with the fashions of the 60s, but life seems to smile on them until Harriet's fifth pregnancy, when everything starts to go wrong...Doris Lessing is author of "The Grass is Singing", "The Golden Notebook", "Briefing for a Descent into Hell", "The Good Terrorist" and "The Sirian Experiment".
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A hair-raising tale as full of twists and shocks as any page turner could desire. Time Terse and chilling . A witch s brew of conflicting fears. The New York Review of Books A horror story of maternity and the nightmare of social collapse . A moral fable of the genre that includes Mary Shelley s Frankenstein and George Orwell s Nineteen Eighty-Four. The New York Times Book Review"
"A hair-raising tale...as full of twists and shocks as any page turner could desire." --Time"Terse and chilling.... A witch's brew of conflicting fears." --The New York Review of Books"A horror story of maternity and the nightmare of social collapse.... A moral fable of the genre that includes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four." --The New York Times Book Review
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