The Memoirs of a Survivor - Doris Lessing

Had some disagreement with the girlfriend about this one. I thought the writing style was far too dense and too intellectual - intellectual in a show-offy way - for it to make an entertaining read. She says that's not what it's supposed to be. Anyway it was just about worth the effort, mainly for the setting, which is not so much post-apocalyptic as mid-apocalyptic, and fascinating. It seems, ultimately, to be a book in which the young take over civilisation from the old. It's about the transition from our current, unsustainable way of life to something more down to earth.