The Fall of Man in Wilmslow Doris Lessing 1979Maggie Thatcher is prime minister

1979Maggie Thatcher is prime minister

The Middle Ground is very much a novel of today

' Lock turned away and laboured on

The Middle Ground is a brilliant and witty novel about communication and non-communication across the barriers of sex

The Fall of Man in Wilmslow Doris Lessing 1979Maggie Thatcher is prime ministerLeonard Corell, a detective sergeant in the sleepy town of Wilmslow, is disillusioned with his lot. Trapped between professional stagnation and personal repression, he can't even work up the courage to ask out Julie, the pretty assistant at the tailor's. Tasked with investigating the suicide of a local recluse, Alan Turing, Corell is torn between admiration for the dead man's genius and disgust for his sexuality. In the face of opposition from his