Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949–1962The second volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Walking in the Shade begins in 1949, as Doris Lessing arrives in London with nothing but her young son and the manuscript of her first novel. With humour and clear sightedness, she records her battles of the next decade: her involvement with communism, her love affairs, her struggle with poverty, the difficulties she faced as a young single mother. But