{"product_id":"9780586089033","title":"The Fifth Child","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Lessing, Doris \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 03\/07\/1996,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 160 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780586089033,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA classic tale from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Listening to the laughter, the sounds of children playing, Harriet and David would reach for each other’s hand, and smile, and breathe happiness.’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Four children, a beautiful old house, the love of relatives and friends – Harriet and David Lovatt’s life is a glorious hymn to domestic bliss and old-fashioned family values. But when their fifth child is born, a sickly and implacable shadow is cast over this tender idyll. Large and ugly, violent and uncontrollable, the infant Ben, ‘full of cold dislike’, tears at Harriet’s breast. Struggling to care for her new-born child, faced with a darkness and a strange defiance she has never known before, Harriet is deeply afraid of what, exactly, she has brought into the world …\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697847992364,"sku":"9780586089033","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780586089033.jpg?v=1722604280","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780586089033","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}