![]() ![]() ![]() It centres around a group of young, white, idealists and their political debates and hypocrisies particularly around communism, racism and the war. ![]() The novel is based on Anna’s youth in Colonial Africa during WWII. She has been able to support herself with the proceeds from her novel, a best-seller called Frontiers of War. Anna has had other relationships over the years since her divorce invariably with married men, which never last. But she is thankful at least for the daughter she got out of it. Anna’s marriage was brief and lacked physical attraction and emotional intimacy. The Golden Notebook is the story of Anna Wulf a divorced single mother, struggling writer and former communist living in London in the late 1950’s. First published in 1962, The Golden Notebook, by Nobel Prize Winner Doris Lessing, brought to the surface the unheard stories of an underclass of women mistreated by the men who have power over them, a time of dissolving political certainties and of constant fear of nuclear war. ![]()
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