'A fascinating mix of literary criticism, cultural history and memoir... Highly enjoyable' - Sunday Times
How might we live more freely, and will we be happier or lonelier if we do$66 Rereading The Golden Notebook in her thirties, Lara Feigel discovered that Doris Lessing spoke directly to her as a woman, writer and mother in a way that no other novelist had done. Veering between admiration and fury at the choices Lessing made, Feigel conducts a dazzling investigation into the joys and costs of sexual, psychological, intellectual and political freedom.
The result is this genre-defying book: at once a meditation on life and literature and a daring act of self-exposure.
