The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels

Shocking, intimate, often
uncomfortably honest, these stories reaffirm Doris Lessing’s unequalled ability
to capture the truth of the human condition

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. In Victoria
and the Staveneys, a young woman gives birth to a child of mixed
race and struggles with feelings of estrangement as her daughter gets drawn
into a world of white privilege....