A Ripple from the Storm

By Doris Lessing

Subjects: Women, Women communists, Fiction, British, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Married women, Women radicals

Description: **A Ripple from the Storm** (1958) is the third novel in British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing five volume, semi-autobiographical, series, *Children of Violence*. The first volume is *Martha Quest* (1952), and the others are, *A Proper Marriage* (1954), *Landlocked* (1965), and *The Four-Gated City* (1969). The Children of Violence series, follows the life of protagonist Martha Quest "from girlhood to middle age". ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Ripple_from_the_Storm))