A review by tararoi_
The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing

3.0

a very compact novel with sharp twists and turns; a young couple wants to have no less than five children. The first four children are angels but the fifth one flips their idyllic lives upside down. The goblin child starts shredding the happy family apart (unintentionally?)
was it postnatal depression? guilt?


I've always been suspicious of children anyway.