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The Fifth Child

✍️ Doris Lessing
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🏛 Vintage 📅 1989 🌐 English 📔 Paperback 📐 Book ISBN: 9780679721826

📝 Description: The Fifth Child

Harriet and David Lovatt face a frightening dilemma: how to love a monstrosity they have brought into the world--hideous in appearance, insatiably hungry, abnormally strong and brutal. A horror story comparable to Rosemary's Baby by the internationally acclaimed author.

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