
Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story--centered on the birth of a baby who seems less than human--probes society's unwillingness to recognize its own brutality.Harriet and David Lovatt, parents of four children, have created an idyll of domestic bliss in defiance of...

A self-satisfied couple intent on raising a happy family is shocked by the birth of an abnormal and brutal fifth child.


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