The Golden Notebook

The Golden Notebook is Doris Lessing''s most important work and has left its mark upon the ideas and feelings of a whole generation of women. — New York Times Book ReviewAnna is a writer author of one very successful novel who now keeps four notebooks. In one with a black cover she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in a blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity Anna resolves to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook.Lessing''s best-known and most influential novel The Golden Notebook retains its extraordinary power and relevance decades after its initial publication.