The Golden Notebook Author:Doris Lessing In The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing scrutinizes the plight of the emancipated woman of today with an honesty and an intensity which most women will find as pitiless as a mirror on a Monday morning. — Anna is a writer who is forced to inquire why she can no longer write. In her attitudes to marriage, love, and children, and to religion, politics,... more » and money, she discovers only dilemma; possessive of her independence - and of her daughter - she cannot escape the need to be wanted. This is a story of loneliness bordering on despair and mania, of political disillusionment, of sterile affairs, and stultifying marriages ... but it is also an expression of a powerful defiance, for which psycho-analysis has provided no easy answer.« less