num_pages: 400
description: The Good Terrorist follows Alice Mellings, a woman who transforms her home into a headquarters for a group of radicals who plan to join the IRA. As Alice struggles to bridge her ideology and her bourgeois upbringing, her companions encounter unexpected challenges in their quest to incite social change against complacency and capitalism. With a nuanced sense of the intersections between the personal and the political, Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing creates in The Good Terrorist a compelling portrait of domesticity and rebellion.
language: English
title: The Good Terrorist
titlecomplete: The Good Terrorist
characters: Alice Mellings
genres: Fiction, Politics, British Literature, Literature, Novels, Nobel Prize, Contemporary, Terrorism, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 4023
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: WH Smith Literary Award
publisher: Harper Collins Publishers