Widely regarded as one of the most influential books of the mid-20th century and the central masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook is the story of Anna Wulf, a young novelist with writer's block. Divorced, with a young child, and disillusioned by unsatisfactory relationships, she feels her life is falling apart. Fearing the onset of madness, she records her experiences in four colored notebooks. Bold and illuminating, fusing sex, politics, madness and motherhood, it is at once a wry and perceptive portrait of the intellectual and moral climate of the 1950s, on the brink of feminism, and a powerful account of a woman searching for her own personal and political identity.