The Grass is Singing opens in dramatic, albeit understated, fashion with a small news report indicating that Mary Turner, wife of the white British-Rhodesian farmer Dick Turner, had been found murdered on her front verandah. Lessing’s debut was an astonishing novel which must have been received by a number of British readers as an assault on their belief systems. In 1950, this deeply personal manuscript would be transformed into the novel The Grass Is Singing. It was the manuscript which would transform the life of this fearless colonial from the margins of the fast-changing British Empire. Doris Lessing left Africa – Southern Rhodesia to be precise, to journey by ship to England with the most meagre of personal possessions – a suitcase, a small sum of money and a manuscript.
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