Martha Books in Order

During the Depression, Harry considers marrying for money to save his failing business, abandoning the woman he loves. Dolores's observant young niece Martha becomes caught among adult schemes that may yet offer another solution to their predicament.

Young painter Martha travels to postwar Paris for a year of study, intent on developing her art. An affair with a homesick British bank clerk brings unexpected consequences, which she approaches with the same determined practicality that guides her creative life.

An established painter, Martha returns to Paris for an exhibition and faces the son she left behind ten years earlier. Meeting George challenges the independence she has guarded and reveals a family connection she cannot treat as unfinished business indefinitely.