The second book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner's `Children of Violence' series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain.
`A Proper Marriage' sees twenty-something Martha beginning to realise that her marriage has been a terrible mistake. Already the first passionate flush of matrimony has begun to fade; sensuality has become dulled by habit, blissful motherhood now seems no more than a tiresome chore. Caught up in a maelstrom of a world war she can no longer ignore, Martha's political consciousness begins to dawn, and, seizing independence for the first time, she chooses to make her life her own.
- ISBN10 0586021167
- ISBN13 9780586021163
- Publish Date November 1969
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 March 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Grafton
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 384
- Language English