Doris Lessing died. See the news here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24979129
I read her book The Fifth Child a year ago. It was a shocking experience and very humbling. It actually helped me to understand those people - among them a very close relative - who cannot let the hands of their children go, even if this cripples their own and their families lives. It is a touching and terrifying account of the strength of attachment, and I think in a sense speaks well for the claim that a mother would belie her self if she would abandon her child in that way.
In the novel the father character grows distant and alienated from the child. Is is sad that he cannot help in supporting him, but the good side is that he is still there for his wife and is a firm financial support - don't underestimate the value of that in such situations.
A wonderful writer is gone now, and I hope many will take up some of her books and remember her in the best possible way: by reading her work!
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