A Clergymans Daughter (Owc)

A Clergymans Daughter is George Orwells least well-known, most unappreciated novel. Drawing on his experiences as a hop-picker, teacher, and urban vagrant, it tells the peculiar story of Dorothy Hare, the daughter of the Rector of St Athelstans in the fictional town of Knype Hill. Unacknowledged by her absent-minded father and gossiped about by his rheumatic parishioners, Dorothy is suddenly and traumatically catapulted into the unknown. She wakes up in London, her memory temporarily gone. Travels to the Kentish countryside, spends a night in Trafalgar Square, works for the authoritarian schoolteacher Mrs Creevy, and then journeys back to her old, limited life. A novel about loss and return, A Clergymans Daughter charts the course of a young womans voyage out and circular homecoming.