Intelligent sensitive and fiercely passionate <strong>Martha Quest</strong> is a youngwoman living on a farm in Africa feeling her way through the torments ofad... » 

Intelligent sensitive and fiercely passionate Martha Quest is a youngwoman living on a farm in Africa feeling her way through the torments ofadolescence and early womanhood. She is a romantic idealistic in revolt againstthe puritan snobbery of her parents trying to live to the full with everynerve emotion and instinct laid bare to experience. For her this is a timeof solitary reading daydreams dancing and the first disturbing encounterswith sex. The first of Doris Lessings timeless Children of Violence novelsMartha Quest is an endearing masterpiece. «