The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing only one of them knows

only one of them knows they are sisters

a star-gazing pavement artist and a starving Russian ex-army captain

how the lights come on

she knows she’ll earn top marks at the School for Good and graduate a storybook princess

The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing only one of them knowsSet in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, and Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of an enigmatic and