The Sweetest Dream - **Signed** - 1st/1st by Lessing Doris - 2001

London: Flamingo, 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed Without Inscription. First Edition/First Printing. Light edge wear to jacket, slight fading to jacket spine with light tanning to page edges. Signed 'Doris Lessing' to the title page. The story of a family, spanning most of the twentieth century, has its fulcrum in the Sixties, that contracictory and embattled decade about which argument becomes louder every day. The young of that time, bursting old bonds and demanding freedom, were seen by some of their elders not at all as they saw themselves, as romantic idealists, but as deeply damaged people. Old Julia, the clan's matriarch, knows why. 'You can't have two dreadful wars and then say "That's it, and now everything will go back to normal." They're screwed up, our children, they are children of war.'.