The Cleft Condition:Very Good high up in Zuckerman's barn

high up in Zuckerman's barn

Remarkably informed and wide-ranging

And who knows

the oldest girl in the world and a herd of cows on a shopping trip to Manchester

when a messenger of the Illuminati announces they have hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City

The Cleft Condition:Very Good high up in Zuckerman's barnDoris Lessing invites us to imagine a mythical society free from sexual intrigue, free from jealousy, free from petty rivalries: a society free from men. An old Roman senator, contemplative at his late stage of life, embarks on what will likely be his last endeavour: the retelling of the story of human creation. He recounts the history of the Clefts, an ancient community of women living in an Edenic, coastal wilderness, confined within the valley of