Hardcover, 440 pages
English language
Published July 15, 1954 by Michael Joseph Ltd.
An unconventional woman trapped in a conventional marriage, Martha Quest struggles to maintain her dignity and her sanity through the misunderstandings, frustrations, infidelities, and degrading violence of a failing marriage. Finally, she must make the heartbreaking choice of whether to sacrifice her child as she turns her back on marriage and security.
A dark and well-considered story that mirrors societal collapse at the outset of WWII with marital collapse and draws together these connected circumstances brilliantly.
