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From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the sequel to one of her most celebrated novels, ‘The Fifth Child’.‘The Fifth Child’, Doris Lessing’s 1988 novel, made a powerful impact on publication. Its account of idyllic marital and parental bliss shattered by the arrival of the feral fifth child of the Lovatts made for unnerving and compulsive reading.That child, Ben, is the central character of this sequel, which picks up the fable at the end of his childhood and takes our primal, misunderstood, maladjusted teenager out into the world. He meets mostly with mockery, fear and incomprehension, but with just enough kindness and openness to keep him afloat as his adventures take him from London to the south of France and on to South America in his restless quest for community, companionship and peace.Lessing employs a plain, unadorned prose fit for fables; again, we have a childlike perspective at the heart of the book; again, the world in all its malevolence and misapprehension swirls around at the edge, while, occasionally, a strong character steps forward to try to set a good example.

One night to rewrite the rule book! Spontaneity is not in Miranda Dean’s vocabulary. Life as a single mum with a demanding career leaves no time for anything impulsive! But that’s before the appearance of the delectable Dr Patrick Costello!Miranda has been resisting all men’s charms, but there is something about Patrick – his gentle eyes, his cheeky smile, the feeling that she’s always known him… So when he takes her by the hand she knows this will be one night she’ll never forget!