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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.

‘The perfect balance of romcom and drama!’ GRAZIAShe kissed the groom. She’s not the bride…Edie thought she’d found The One…until he told her he was marrying someone else. And on the day of his wedding, when he kisses her, life really does go pear-shaped…Labelled as a home-wrecker and office outcast, whenher boss offers her the chance to get out of town Ediejumps at it, even though moving back in with her eccentricfather and prickly sister isn’t exactly the escape she needs.When her work throws her into the path of rising starand heartthrob Elliot, Edie is expecting a highly strungdiva. But as their unexpected friendship develops,Elliot isn’t the only one in the spotlight…Who’s that girl? Edie is ready to find out.