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Doris Lessing's modern day gothic horror history - devoted to the labor and birth of child who seems significantly less than human - probes society's unwillingness to identify its brutality. Harriet and David Lovatt, parents of four children, have created an idyll of domestic bliss in defiance of the social trends of late 1960s Britain. While around them crime and unrest surge, the Lovatts are sure that their old-fashioned contentment can protect them from the world outside - before labor and birth of their fifth baby. Gruesomely goblin-like in appearance, insatiably eager, abnormally strong and violent, Ben has nothing innocent or infant-like about him. As he expands older and more terrifying, Harriet discovers she cannot love him, David cannot bring himself to touch him, and their four teenagers are afraid of him. Understanding that he'll never be accepted anywhere, Harriet and David are torn between their intuition as parents and their shocked a reaction to this fierce and unlovable child whose living shatters their notion in a benign world.
