Alfred and Emily

Doris Lessing

RRP: £16.99

Publisher: FOURTH ESTATE

Publication Date : 06/05/2008

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

An innovative new book from the hugely successful and acclaimed writer, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature last year. Lessing explores the lives of her parents, who were both irrevocably damaged by the Great War, and imagines what their lives would have been like has there been no war at all. She has them meeting at a village cricket match as children, but leading separate lives. A wonderful blend of fact and fiction, it's a welcome addition to her backlist of influential works, which include "The Grass Is Singing" and "The Golden Notebook".

Publisher's description:

The first book after Doris' Nobel Prize takes her back to her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents lead.

ISBN: 9780007233458