![]() ![]() But what Lessing does so beautifully here is to go back in time to find out who Mary Turner was to see why she had to die. Mary’s murder is cleared as one catalysed by greed. In a land where strict racial rules are the means by which the white colonisers maintain their control, any untoward issues that don’t fit in with white society’s ideas of how people should act is quickly and unsentimentally cleared away, untouched. ![]() The Grass is Singing is set in Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s and begins with the murder of Mary Turner by her black servant Moses. A Nobel Prize Laureate and author of many novels including The Golden Notebook, I had heard so much about Lessing and yet felt slightly afraid to read her. August’s book group choice by Kim was Doris Lessing’s debut novel published in 1950, The Grass is Singing.
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