Publisher's Synopsis
In the early 1960s, financial circumstances demand that Frances and her sons move in with her ex-mother-in-law. Adding insult to injury, her ex-husband has just dumped his second wife's problem child at Frances' feet. As the world's political landscape takes a surreal turn, Lessing documents the social movement and disillusionment of a post-war generation, for whom the impossible dream will always endure.
