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The Fifth Child
- By: Doris Lessing
- Narrated by: Sue Pitkin
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 194
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 164
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Story4 out of 5 stars 164
Harriet and David Lovatt, parents of four children, have created an idyll of domestic bliss in defiance of the social trends of late 1960s England. While around them crime and unrest surge, the Lovatts are certain that their old-fashioned contentment can protect them from the world outside - until the birth of their fifth baby. Gruesomely goblin-like in appearance, insatiably hungry, abnormally strong and violent, Ben has nothing innocent or infant-like about him.
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3 out of 5 stars
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60's, English Family Drama
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 05-26-17
- The Fifth Child
- By: Doris Lessing
- Narrated by: Sue Pitkin
Hard to believe it's Lessing!
Reviewed: 07-02-16
Hard to believe it's Lessing - let alone a Nobel Prize winner! Doesn't begin to approach her previous books. The story build to a slow sub-boil and then it's like someone suddenly turns off the heat! Plus it was more like half of a book - the ending fizzled unexpectedly. Like a balloon that instead of popping - the air slowly leaked out of it. Plus again the narrator left a lot to be desired.!
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