A review by bonnybedlam
Ben, In the World: The Sequel to the Fifth Child by Doris Lessing

3.0

I had really mixed feelings about Ben's first story, The Fifth Child. About this book I have only one. It's a terrible shame that, in the first book, his mother rescued him from the institution where he was going to be quietly sedated to death. There is no world for Ben and it would have saved him a great deal of bewildered suffering if she had just accepted that when he was three.