Nobel Prize for Literature winner Doris Lessing tackles the 1960s and their legacy headon in one of her most involving, personal, political novels. Its the morning of the 1960s and its suppertime at Freedom Hall, the most welcoming household in north London. Frances Lennox stands at her stove, preparing another feast before ladling it out to the youthful crew assembled around her hospitable table here are her two sons, smarting at their upbringing but beginning to absorb their mothers lessons. Around them are ranged their schoolfriends and girlfriends and exfriends and new friends fresh off the street. The feast begins. Wine and talk flow. Everything is being changed and being challenged. But what is being tolerated? And where will it end? Over there in the corner is Francess exhusband, Comrade Johnny, who delivers his rousing tirades, then laps up the adolescent adulation before disappearing into the night to evade the clutches of his responsibilities. Upstairs sits Johnnys exiled mother, funding all, but finding she can embrace only one lost little girl Sylvia, who has to travel to Africa, to newly independent Zimlia, to find out who she is and what she wants. And what of the Africans, what will they tolerate? These are the people dreaming the 1960s into being, and the people who, on the morning after all that dreaming, woke to find they were the ones who had to clear up and make good.

Binding: Paperback;498 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; Classification: N/A; Weight: 557.26 g; Dimensions: N/A

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