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The Grandmothers Author: Doris May Lessing

ISBN: 9780060530112 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 311 Published: 4 January 2005 Dimensions (cm): 20.32 x 13.51 x 2.06 Description: In the title novel, two friends fall in love with each other's teenage sons, and these passions last for years, until the women end them, vowing a respectable old age.

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About the Author

Doris May Lessing CH (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 - 17 November 2013) was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952-69), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels co...

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