The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
The Fifth Child

Doris Lessing

The Fifth Child

The Fifth Child #1

Doris Lessing

144 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

fiction classics horror dark reflective slow-paced
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Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story—centered on the birth of a baby who seems less than human—probes society's unwillingness to recognize its own brutality.Harriet and David Lovatt, parents of four children, have created an idyll of d...

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