The Grass is Singing Author:Doris Lessing Mary Turner had desperately wanted to marry, and had accepted the first man to offer himself. Now she was wife to this virtual stranger, in his isolated home on the vast African plains. In this lonely place, there was no escape from the truth about her marriage and herself: as Mary was drawn ever further from a husband who refused to sense her d... more »esperate needs, and ever closer to a black serving man whom she feared to love and above all to touch lest she be destroyed.« less