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“Always in the past, the sexy heroines of men’s books have been idiots, but she asserted through her character of Anna that women were brains and bodies and that their brains and bodies interacted. I think that was so revolutionary…It was so important that Doris Lessing came along and wrote a heroine who was sexual and intellectual; she grappled with the issues of socialism, communism, Africa in turmoil, and yet at the same time she lusted for men and talked about the confusions of her love affairs.” Read more...
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Darkness Visible
by William Golding, with a foreword by Nicola Barker -
Rites of Passage
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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding, with a foreword by Stephen King -
The Inheritors
by William Golding, with a foreword by Ben Okri -
The Spire
by William Golding, with a foreword by Benjamin Myers
