Martha Quest, the embodied heroine ... as one of the greatest fictional creations in the English language. In [this novel, the author] charts Martha Quest's personal and political adventures in race-torn British Africa, following Martha through World War II, a grotesque second m…
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Charts Martha Quest's personal and political adventures in race-torn British Africa, following Martha through World War II, a grotesque second marriage, and an excursion into Communism.
Charts Martha Quest's personal and political adventures in race-torn British Africa, following Martha through World War II, a grotesque second marriage, and an excursion into Communism.
After moving to London, Martha Quest finds herself being drawn toward a Bohemian way of life.
Martha leaves Africa for post-war London. As housekeeper to the Coldridge family, she watches the children in her care, the new "children of violence", grow up in a distintegrating world, a world careering towards nuclear disaster.
"The 'Children of Violence' series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest, from her childhood in Africa to a post-nuclear Britain of AD 2000, first established Doris Lessing as a great radical writer. In this, the fifth and final volume, Martha, now middle-aged, l…