The FourGated City Author:Doris Lessing The conclusion of the five-volume series "Children of Violence." — In The Four-Gated City, Martha Quest is in London as the Fifties begin. This volume then is set in post-war Britain, and with Martha is integrally part of the social history of the time - the Cold War, the Aldermaston Marches, Swinging London, the deepening of poverty and social a... more »narchy; and the minuteness, the painful insight of Mrs Lessings treatment of her characters is, as always in her work, due to her vision of them as creations and embodiments of huge impersonal forces.« less