Children of Violence A Proper Marriage, Book 2, (Paperback)

from solla

The time and place is Rhodesia of the 1940's in the early stages of Rhodesia becoming involved in World War II. I am struck by how constrained the characters are from saying what they really want to say and acting as they really want to act, or even associating with or marrying who they want to a...

from Ebba

Second book in the "Children of Violence" series. Martha regrets getting married right after her wedding to Douglas. She feels trapped and depressed. The second world war is around the corner. The young local men go away to either train for the war or participate and fresh pale englishmen from th...

from Widsith

This is page after page after page of close, conscientious fiction-writing, of the old-fashioned sort that tries unironically to put you in the mind of someone else. So successful is Lessing that after reading two books in this sequence, I genuinely feel like I've experienced growing up as a woma...

from pamelad

Volume two of the Children of Violence series, about the life of Martha Quest. Set in Rhodesia at the beginning of WWII. Martha has married Douglas, who remains one of the boys and continues to work for the (Civil) Service. She's living in a big suburban house, scrimping on the present to pay for...

from baswood

This is not the story of a resolute woman leaving a loveless marriage, but of one woman's struggle to make some sense of her life whilst feeling trapped in a society that she finds oppressive. I'm bored, I'm bored, I'm bored she pleads........ The story follows closely on the heels of [Martha Que...