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Martha Quest (Children of Violence, Bk 1)
Martha Quest - Children of Violence, Bk 1 Author:Doris Lessing The first book in the Children of Violence series traces the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain. Intelligent, sensitive, and fiercely passionate, Martha Quest is a young woman living on a farm in Africa, feeling her way through the torments of adolescence and early womanhood.She is ... more »a romantic idealistic in revolt against the puritan snobbery of her parents, trying to live to the full with every nerve, emotion, and instinct laid bare to experience. For her, this is a time of solitary reading daydreams, dancing -- and the first disturbing encounters with sex. « less