Set in Rhodesia, this is the story of Dick, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, dependent and disappointed. Both are trapped by poverty, and in the heat of the brick and tin house, hemmed in by the bush, Mary finds herself seeking solace in the arms of the houseboy. *** The Grass Is Singing is Doris Lessing's classic first novel. It is the story of the murder of a poor white woman by her ...