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In the first half of this unusual blend of fact and fiction, Lessing imagines fulfilled lives for her parents, Alfred Tayler and Emily McVeagh, in an England untouched by the First World War. Emily becomes a nurse and an activist, and never has children; Alfred becomes a farmer and the father of twin boys. In the second part, Lessing remembers what really happened--she grew up in Rhodesia, the daughter of a ...