UNDER MY SKIN

The first volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, author of 'The Grass is
Singing' and 'The Golden Notebook', and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
2007. Winner of the James Tait Black Prize 1994. Doris Lessing's autobiography
begins with her childhood in Africa and ends on her arrival in London in 1949 wi
th the typescript of her first novel in her suitcase.



It charts the evolution
first of her consciousness, then of her sexuality and finally of her political
awareness with an almost overwhelming immediacy, and is as distinctive and chall
enging as anything she has ever written. It is already recognised as one of the
great autobiographies of the twentieth century.