Ripple from the Storm

<p><strong>Doris Lessing of all the postwar English novelists is the foremost creative descendant of that great tradition' which includes George Eliot and D. H. Lawrence. -- <em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong></p><p>Martha Quest the embodied heroine of the Children of Violence series has been acclaimed as one of the greatest fictional creations in the English language. In a <em>Ripple from the Storm </em> Doris Lessing charts Martha Quest's personal and political adventures in race-torn British Africa following Martha through World War II a grotesque second marriage and an excursion into Communism. This wise and starling novel perceptively reveals the paradoxes passions and ironies rooted in the life of twentieth-century Anglo-Africa.</p><p>A <em>Ripple from the Storm</em> is the third novel in Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence sequence of novels each a masterpiece in its own right and taken together an incisive and all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.</p>