Sweetest Dream

"[A] novel whose moments of brilliance are obscured by reams of tiresome exposition, hokey plot twists and astonishingly opaque characters....As in THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK, the psychological struggles of women to come to terms with their marriages and their own fears of madness and despair are delineated, though this time without the daring narrative innovations of that earlier novel. The reader is left with the sense that Ms. Lessing is simply tossing everything she's ever written about before into this kitchen sink of a novel, with no regard to the niceties of narrative construction or rudiments of storytelling....In the third portion of the novel..., the narrative picks up speed....Here, Ms. Lessing's wonderfully evocative sense of place...kicks in, providing us with a visceral sense of Sylvia's arduous day-to-day life."Lessing, Doris is the author of 'Sweetest Dream', published 2003 under ISBN 9780060937553 and ISBN 0060937556.