My Left Foot is the 1954 autobiography of Christy Brown, who was born on June 5, 1932 in Dublin, Ireland to a bricklayer and a housewife. As one of 13 surviving children, Brown went on to be an author, painter and poet. My Left Foot documents the story of his life, a life afflicted by … More My Left Foot

The Fifth Child is a novel by Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing, first published in the United Kingdom in 1988, and since translated into a number of languages. The book describes the changes in the happy life of a married couple, Harriet and David Lovatt, which occur as consequence of the birth of Ben, their fifth child. The novel is … More The Fifth Child