Title: A proper marriage
Subtitle: a complete novel from Doris Lessing's masterwork Children of violence.
First published: 1954
Description: An unconventional woman trapped in a conventional marriage, Martha Quest struggles to maintain her dignity and her sanity through the misunderstandings, frustrations, infidelities, and degrading violence of a failing marriage. Finally, she must make the heartbreaking choice of whether to sacrifice her child as she turns her back on marriage and security.
Subjects: Fiction, British, Women, Married women, Africa, fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
Places: Southern Africa, Zimbabwe, South Africa
People: Doris Lessing (1919-2013)