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Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

Penelope Mortimer
3.94/5 (505 ratings)
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Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting is about the expectations of women, about a house-bound mother reluctantly (desperately) at home all day, in contrast to her daughter who has escaped, to university and then, we can assume, to a job.

In Ruth Whiting’s commuter-belt village ‘the wives conform to a certain standard of dress, they run their houses along the same lines, bring their children up in the same way; all prefer coffee to tea, all drive cars, play bridge, own at least one valuable piece of jewellery and are moderately good-looking.’ Yet Ruth is on the verge of going mad. A ‘nervous breakdown’ would be a politer phrase, but really she is being driven mad by her life and her madness is exacerbated by everyone’s indifference to her plight.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
240 pages
Publication:
2008
Publisher:
Persephone Books
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1903155673
ISBN13:
9781903155677
kindle Asin:
B09K81Z4VM

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

Penelope Mortimer
3.94/5 (505 ratings)
Read Download
Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting is about the expectations of women, about a house-bound mother reluctantly (desperately) at home all day, in contrast to her daughter who has escaped, to university and then, we can assume, to a job.

In Ruth Whiting’s commuter-belt village ‘the wives conform to a certain standard of dress, they run their houses along the same lines, bring their children up in the same way; all prefer coffee to tea, all drive cars, play bridge, own at least one valuable piece of jewellery and are moderately good-looking.’ Yet Ruth is on the verge of going mad. A ‘nervous breakdown’ would be a politer phrase, but really she is being driven mad by her life and her madness is exacerbated by everyone’s indifference to her plight.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
240 pages
Publication:
2008
Publisher:
Persephone Books
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1903155673
ISBN13:
9781903155677
kindle Asin:
B09K81Z4VM

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