The Golden Notebook

The landmark novel of the Sixties, this powerful account of a woman searching for her identity while facing rejection and betrayal is wry and perceptive, bold and indispensable. The Golden Notebook is widely regarded as Doris Lessing’s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.

Buffeted by the political and personal uncertainties of life in 1950s London, novelist Anna Wulf battles with writer’s block. Divorced with a young child, and on the precipice of a breakdown, Anna records her experiences in four coloured notebooks: black for her writing life, red for political views, yellow for emotions, blue for everyday events. But it is a fifth notebook – the golden notebook – that brings the strands of her life together and offers a path to recovery.