Five novels, for the price of one.

The book was a slog for the both of us, and both the politics and the feminism came across as dated. The structure of the book was interesting though, although trying to reconcile its separate parts made my head hurt. Some of the notebooks were obviously more fictional than others, or rather, some were the fictional creations of fictional characters. But it was not obvious which ones were which. Was the Free Women story the 'truth', narrated by Doris Lessing, against which the other stories were diverging? Or was Free Women just another novel written by Anna?