The Four-Gated City (The Children of Violence, Book 5)

World War II has ended, the future looms huge and unknown, and Martha Quest has left her husband, her past, and her beloved Africa behind her for the teeming city of London. Through the years of hope following the return of peace, through the growing chill and spreading despair of the Cold War, through the heady liberation and perilous personal anarchy of the 1960s and beyond, Martha struggles to find her place as a free woman in a world of change and challenge. The themes of time, sex, politics, society, and self are interwoven in a vivid portrayal of individual fate against the backdrop of modern civilization. SC, 668 pages.