Sweetest Dream

<p><strong>[Lessing] is a pro writing at the top of her powers realistically passionately accessibly.... a stirring novel--San Francisco Chronicle</strong></p><p>Frances Lennox stands at her stove bringing another feast to readiness before ladling it out to the youthful crew assembled around her hospitable table--her two sons and their friends girlfriends ex-friends and new friends fresh off the street. It's London in the 1960s and everything is being challenged and changed.</p><p>But what is being tolerated? Comrade Johnny delivers political tirades then laps up the adolescent adulation before disappearing into the night to evade the clutches of his responsibilities. Johnny's mother funds all but finds she can embrace only one lost little girl--Sylvia who leaves for a South African village dying of AIDS.</p><p>These are the people dreaming the Sixties into being and who on the morning after woke to find they were the ones taxed with cleaning up and making good.</p>