![]() Until she overhears friends discussing her spinsterhood, Mary’s life was just fine with her. The rest of this short novel tells how the tragic beginning/ending of the story came about, describing Mary’s life from childhood til death. ![]() Her husband went insane, probably from a severe form of malaria, immediately after. Doris Lessing’s first novel starts with a newspaper article about the murder of Mary Turner, the white wife of a poor farmer in Rhodesia, by her Black house servant, Moses.
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