“[Lessing] is a pro, writing at the top of powers, realistically, passionately, accessibly…. a stirring novel.” — San Francisco Chronicle
“Lessing’s sage, level gaze is everywhere bought to bear … [THE SWEETEST DREAM] is solidly wrought, deeply felt.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Irresistibly alluring … [THE SWEETEST DREAM is] one of Lessing’s most generous works.” — Book Magazine
“Lessing renders the spirit of an age as few writers can.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Wonderfully ripe characters … grand-scale writing.” — Entertainment Weekly
“[Lessing’s] acute political and artistic awareness makes her vision of our time rich and almost always freshly perceptive.” — The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)
“A kind of a truth emerges … as Lessing effortlessly captures what is a quintessential in each of her charming characters.” — The Guardian [London]
“One of out greatest novelists.” — Salon.com
“Lessing’s most engrossing novel in many years.” — London Times Literary Supplement
“This book brings with it a rare literary pleasure - the kind you might have in suddenly coming upon a long lost novel by George Elliot or Balzac …The haunting brilliance of her characters whom one feels one knows better than one’s friends, the passion of her ideas and vision remain unblemished.” — The Independent (London)
“Anyone who regards THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK as one of the key books of the mid-20th century will find this disconcerting novel worth attention.” — The Sunday Telegraph (London)
“A great story with a Dickensian cast of memorable characters.” — Evening Standard
“[THE SWEETEST DREAM] is a beautifully made book.” — Financial Times [London]
“In its critique of mass-produced thinking and the long-term personal cost of war, THE SWEETEST DREAM approaches a universal truth: both damage people’s capacity to give and receive love.” — The Observer (London)