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So you see when I have to try and explain why this cook murdered his mistress, I have to find something pretty difficult.Īnd the newspaper cutting that you mentioned, what did that say?ĭoris Lessing: It said something like, I have it somewhere … it’s so and so’s cook of so and so murdered so and so. I mean I knew it was absolutely beyond the pale. And among the things that went into that book was a woman on the next farm, a new one, who had all the farmers scandalised, a farmer’s wife, because she let her cook boy button her dress up to the back and brush her hair. See, what the whites couldn’t stand, ever, was somebody who didn’t think they were wonderful, who didn’t fit in. So it was all based on a little newspaper cutting which I kept because it said so much about what I had been brought up in. … what the whites couldn’t stand, ever, was somebody who didn’t think they were wonderful …
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And I wrote a novel but while this sounds quite … we now embark on 10 years of difficulty. And I went in to see my boss, Mr Hill, and I said: Mr Hill, I’m going to leave you and I’m going to write a novel, at which of course he fell about laughing because of how I left him. I said: Enough now, I’m going to write this novel. But in fact, I hadn’t written a novel and there was in fact that moment – I was working in a lawyer’s office. Yes, it’s because I’d been saying that I’m a writer and all this and I had short stories. And I wondered Doris, if you can face it, if we could begin by going all the way back to your first published novel, The Grass is Singing, because I think it’s one that quite a lot of your admirers still find quite a powerful read.ĭoris Lessing: Some of them think it’s the best thing I ever wrote, which is really annoying.Ĭan you remember what impelled you to write it?ĭoris Lessing: Yes, of course. Hello, I’m John Mullan, I’m Professor of English at University College London and I’m here to talk to Doris Lessing, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature for 2007.