Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing (Author)
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ISBN: 9780007282708
Publisher : Fourth Estate, 5 May 2008
Paperback, 288 pages
Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, both of them irrevocably damaged by the Great War. Her father wanted the life of an English farmer, but shrapnel almost killed him in the trenches, & thereafter had to wear a wooden leg. Her mother's great love was a doctor, who drowned in the Channel, & she spent the war nursing the wounded.