The Good Terrorist a brief summary

Doris Lessing published her first novel in 1950. which was a great success, and since then her reputation flourished.
The Good Terrorist was published in 1985. in Great Britain and it is one of Lessing's most realistic books. It was shortlisted for 1985. Booker Prize and it was the winner of 1986. W.H. Smith Literary award.

The book talks about the lives of a group of young people during the 1980s, who thought they were fighting for better lives for them all and felt contempt for middle-class people who had so ordinary lives. But the main character is Alice Mellings who has, as a little girl, lived with her parents in a big house, but later distanced herself from them, became a revolutionary and started going to demonstrations and pickets. There she met Jasper who was different than her and a bit odd, but he became her friend and the man she loved. They joined the C.C.U. (Communist Centre Union) and lived in squats, in houses which were usually shabby, dirty, with no electricity, b...