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Doris Lessing: The Four-Gated City (1969, Hart-Davis, MacGibbon) No rating

The Four-Gated City, published in 1969, is the concluding novel in British Nobel Prize-winning author …

The complexities of Martha’s living arrangements and the matter of fact way they are dealt with are so refreshing. This weird confusion of sex and discordant relationships, Mark’s love for but frustration with his wife, Paul’s adolescent lashing out, Francis’ frustration, and all the while Martha, at the centre of it all, someone who has stumbled into this situation from happenstance, stayed there for a decade, and is still trying to work out who she is.