A Ripple from the Storm

About “A Ripple from the Storm”

A Ripple from the Storm (1958) is the third novel in Doris Lessing’s five-volume semi-autobiographical series Children of Violence. The series follows the life of the protagonist, Martha Quest, from girlhood to middle age. The first volume, Martha Quest (1952), is followed by A Proper Marriage (1954), Landlocked (1965), and The Four-Gated City (1969). Lessing, a British author and Nobel Prize in Literature winner, wrote the series as a reflection of her own experiences and the social changes of her time. A Ripple from the Storm continues the narrative of Martha’s personal and political development within a broader historical context.