num_pages: 448
description: One of Doris Lessing's most important novels -- here beautifully repackaged This is the second volume in Doris Lessing's renowned quartet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in Africa to an imagined post-nuclear Britain. A Proper Marriage sees twenty-something Martha beginning to realise that her marriage has been a terrible mistake. Already the first passionate flush of matrimony has begun to fade; sensuality has become dulled by habit, blissful motherhood now seems no more than a tiresome chore. Caught up in a maelstrom of a world war she can no longer ignore, Martha's political consciousness begins to dawn, and, seizing independence for the first time, she chooses to make her life her own.
language: English
title: A Proper Marriage
titlecomplete: A Proper Marriage (Children of Violence, #2)
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Feminism, Novels, Zimbabwe, Nobel Prize, Fiction, Africa, British Literature
ratings_count: 1148
series: Children of Violence
publisher: HarperCollins