The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessings first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid.
But after many years, trapped by poverty, sapped by the heat of their tiny house, the lonely and frightened Mary turns to Mose.
Set in Rhodesia, The Grass is Singing tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush and viciously abuses the black South Africans who work on their farm.
The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessings first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid