Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949–1962 - Softcover

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Doris Lessing was one of the most important writers of the second half of the 20th-century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Her novels include The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook and The Good Terrorist. In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British literature. In 2008, The Times ranked her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". She died in 2013.

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The second volume of one of the great autobiographies of the twentieth century.

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In 'Walking in the Shade' we move into the heyday of Lessing's career, sparked off by the international success of her first novel, 'The Grass is Singing'.
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A wonderful evocation of London's literary and political life during the 1950s and 1960s. Doris Lessing was at the very centre of the intellectual scene at the time, and knew many of its personalities and opinion-makers – Kenneth Tynan, John Osborne, E.P. Thompson, Bertrand Russell and many others.
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Perhaps the most frank and open book Doris Lessing has ever written. She writes about her involvement with communism, her love affairs, her depression at the ending of a relationship and her experience of bringing up a child on her own.

"Funny and heartbreaking…every word rings true."
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, 'Books of the Year'

It is exhilarating to read. Not many lives are worth more than two long volumes, but Doris Lessing's most certainly is."
LITERARY REVIEW