OMG! You just won't let this drop will you?!?!

Look, sorry for my comment but it just seemed strange. Teas and Yilgun had mentioned a couple of her novels and I said that she also wrote some wonderful short stories.... it just seemed strange when you added "she also wrote many novels"....

Humble apologies for upsetting you!!!!!!

Lovely catfight

I read some novels of her, both English and Turkish. Something called Argos archive reports..., I am not sure. I hear that she was called living master of English language. I love her style and SF novels.

The Grass is Singing

This is the high-tension story of a woman whose life was changed by a few careless words.
Even though Mary Turner had led a somewhat limited life in her sleepy South African town, she was happy until she overheard some friends say that she would never marry. At those words, her delicately balanced little world overturned, and she suddenly realized that it was desirable to have a husband, to be like the rest of her circle. Unconsciously she began to look for a man to marry, and she found one. He was a farmer - a hard-working sensitive man with an intense love of his land, a stubborn pride - but with a fatal weakness.

When Dick took her to his farm in the veldt, Mary stepped into a life completely different from anything she had ever imagined. She hated the stuffy little house; she hated the natives; she hated Dick at times and most of all she hated the burning heat and the loneliness. After one attempt to return to her life in town, she stayed on the farm, listening to the strident din of the cicadas and fighting against the realization that the security and happiness which she and Dick needed so desperately might never come.

Little by little the years worked their slow poison. And then finally one heat-laden afternoon, without even realizing what she had done, Mary Turner lit the fuse that led to a shattering explosion of violence and tragedy.

Doris Lessing's novel is a remarkable piece of work. At times as violent and harsh as the brown earth and arching blue sky of the veldt, The Grass Is Singing is mercilessly penetrating and casts a spell all its won. At times, too, it is angry at the festering question of black against white which broods over the land like thunder. But above all, it is the story of Mary Turner who was a victim of conflicting forces within herself set up by a few casual, overheard words.

I hav since read two of her books, "The Grass is singing" and "The Golden NOtebook"

I must say, two of the most boring books I have had the misfortune to pick up!

Fortunately "The Grass is Signing" is only around 200 pages but as for the "Golden Notebook"...................... This is perfect if you have a sympathy with communism and feminism........but not my type of book.