Critical Praise

"No ordinary work of fiction...The technique, in a word, is brilliant."

——Saturday Review

"The most absorbing and exciting piece of new fiction I have read in a decades; it moves with the beat of our time, and it is true."

——Irving Howe, New Republic

"The Golden Notebook is Doris Lessing's most important work and has left its mark upon the ideas and feelings of a whole generation of women."

——Elizabeth Hardwick, New York Times Book Review