Alfred and Emily

Resource Information

The work Alfred and Emily represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Alfred and Emily

Creator

• Lessing, Doris May, 1919-

Author

• Lessing, Doris May, 1919-

Subject

• World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects | Fiction
• Colchester (England) -- History -- 1890-1965 -- Fiction
• Zimbabwe -- History -- 1890-1965 -- Fiction
• Lessing, Doris May, 1919- -- Family -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

The first book after Doris' Nobel Prize takes her back to her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents lead. 'I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without. What is the use of it? It is as if that old war is in my own memory, my own consciousness.' In this extraordinary book, the new Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, both of them irrevocably damaged by the Great War. Her father wanted the simple life of an English farmer, but shrapnel almost killed him in the trenches, and thereafter he had to wear a wooden leg. Her mother Emily's great love was a doctor, who drowned in the Channel, and she spent the war nursing the wounded in the Royal Free Hospital

Cataloging source

NLML

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult