A Proper Marriage, by Doris Lessing (used)

'Do you realize we couldn't have slept more than about three hours a night during the last six weeks?'

'Awful, isn't it?'

Over Europe the war-clouds are gathering. For Martha Quest the first flush of marriage begins to fade. Sensuality becomes dulled by habit. Marriage is transformed into motherhood, and with the outbreak of war comes the dawn of political consciousness. The barriers between Martha and the outside world finally dissolve...

A powerful study both of the dissolution of a society and the disintegration of a marriage, A Proper Marriage shows Doris Lessing's passionate involvement with the modern woman- her anguish, her ambiguous freedom, her sexual discontent, her final humiliation.

'She is not only the best woman novelist we have but one of the most serious and intelligent and honest writers of the whole post-war generation.' Sunday Times

Condition: fair (yellowed pages and lightly worn cover)