 Martha Quest

Martha Quest (1952) is the second novel of British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing, and the first of the five-volume semi-autobiographical "The Children of Violence" series, which traces Martha Quest’s life to middle age.The other volumes in "The Children of Violence" are "A Proper Marriage" (1954), "A Ripple from the Storm" (1958), "Landlocked" (1965), and "The Four-Gated City" (1969).