Love, Again
by Doris Lessing | 
The Good Terrorist
by Doris Lessing | 
The Good Apprentice
by Iris Murdoch | 
The Green Knight
by Iris Murdoch | 
The Man Within
by Graham Greene | 
Those Barren Leaves
by Aldous Huxley | 
The Nigger of the Narcissus
by Joseph Conrad | 
An Outcast of the Islands
by Joseph Conrad | 
Enderby's Dark Lady
by Anthony Burgess | 
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
by Iris Murdoch | 
An Accidental Man
by Iris Murdoch | 
The Rescue
by Joseph Conrad | 
The Sunlight Dialogues
by John Gardner | 
Loser Takes All
by Graham Greene | 
The Rover
by Joseph Conrad | 
Look At Me
by Anita Brookner | 
Take Me With You
by Catherine Ryan Hyde | 
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo | 
Anne of Windy Poplars
by Lucy Maud Montgomery | 
The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes |
A middle-aged woman's search for freedom, this is classic Lessing, here given a stunning new image. Her four children have flown, her husband is otherwise occupied, and after twenty years of being a good wife and mother, Kate Brown is free for a summer of adventure. She plunges into an affair with a younger man, travelling abroad with him, and on her return to England, meets an extraordinary young woman whose charm and freedom of spirit encourages Kate in her own liberation. Kate's new life has brought her a strange unhappiness, but as the summer months unfold, a darker, disquieting journey begins, devastating in its consequences.