"Absorbing...Arouses our cheers and sympathy...Her work is cathartic and exhilarating." – Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Compelling reading...Readers familiar with Doris Lessing's work will savor her self-revelations in Under My Skin flavored with her characteristic wry tone." – Chicago Tribune Books
"Extraordinary. . . Eloquent. . . Lessing recounts this passage in her life with complex candor...[and] with the vividness of a fine novelist." – New York Times Book Review
"Lessing summons the girl from half a century ago with such freshness and immediacy that she seems alive today." – Ms. magazine
"One of the 20th century's most important and influential novelist here presents a memoir as probing, unsparing and darkly funny as her fiction." – Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Reminds us of what an autobiography can do in the hands of a master." – Washington Post Book World
