Proper Marriage

<p><strong>A totally modern work. Martha Quest is above all ironically percieved by the author in whose hands irony is an instrument of compassion. -- <em>New Republic</em></strong></p><p>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.</p><p><em>A Proper Marriage</em> is the second novel in Doris Lessing's classic <em>Children of Violence </em>series of novels each a masterpiece on its own right and taken together an incisive and all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.</p>