Her old friends included Naomi Mitchison
(who shared her love of Africa), the composer Philip Glass
, and her biographer and executor Michael Holroyd
.
Murphy, Kim. “Lessing will have the last word”. Edmonton Journal, 2 Dec. 2007, p. D3.
She included with this an Afterword. In 1988 she adapted the novel as a three-act opera libretto for the English National Opera
, to music by Philip Glass
.