Four Gated City (Harperperennial)

<p><strong>I read the <em>Children of Violence</em> novels and began to understand how a person could write about the problems of the world in a compelling and beautiful way and it seemed to me that was the most important thing I could ever do. -- Barbara Kingsolver</strong></p><p>The Children of Violence series a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in Africa to a post-nuclear Britain of AD 2000 first established Doris Lessing winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature as a great radical writer. </p><p>In this the fifth and final volume Marth now middle-aged leaves Africa for post-war London. As housekeeper to the Coldridge family she watches the children in her care the new 'children of violence' grow up in a disintegrating world a world careering toward nuclear disaster.</p>