 Lessing's first novel "The Grass Is Singing" published in 1950, also takes place in Southern Rhodesia, and, set during the 1940s, deals with the racial politics between the British settlers and Africans in that country.Novelist C. P. Snow, in a review of "Martha Quest", in the "Sunday Times", described Doris Lessing, as "one of the most powerfully equipped young novelists now writing.