The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing. She said to her own children, Please look after Amy. Never leave her alone with Ben. ISBN 10: 05820602- ISBN 13: 97805820602- Longman - 1991 . As a child , I learned pretty quickly that Bowen was a lucky last name to be born with. As I dutifully lined up in alphabetical order at school, I was . The premise of this book is that 4million children —one in five children alive— are abused and neglected in ways that could affect their entire lives, and that . Harriet and David Lovatt want the same things - fidelity, love, family life and above all a . A classic tale from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child.
Listening to the laughter . Just as there are for the Four Sons, there must be for this fifth son as well.