Landlocked (novel)

Landlocked

First edition
Author	Doris Lessing
Language	English
Series	Children of Violence
Genre	Novel
Published	1965
Publisher	MacGibbon & Kee
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print
Preceded by	A Ripple from the Storm
Followed by	The Four-Gated City

Landlocked (1965) is the fourth 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), A Ripple from the Storm (1958), and The Four-Gated City (1969). The Children of Violence series, follows the life of protagonist Martha Quest "from girlhood to middle age".^[1]

This is the last of the series that is set in southern Africa: "The time is the last few months of a war that had not only ruined Europe but had flooded a message of equality even into this backwater. Some of the white people have already sensed the imminence of change: they could never again unthinkingly hold down this corner of Africa for themselves and their heirs".^[2]

References

1. Encyclopædia Britannica online
2. Dust jacket of the first edition, DorisLessing.org