The Grandmothers
Four short novels, of which the title piece follows two lifelong friends on the Australian coast, each of whom becomes the lover of the other's grown son. The collection, from Lessing's eighties, returns to the territory of The Summer Before the Dark, the desires of women past middle age.
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