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      A Clergyman's Daughter

      by George Orwell
      Published
      Jan 1950
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      320
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      A pious young woman grapples with a loss of memory—and of faith—in this sharp, witty novel by the author of 1984 and Animal Farm.

      Dorothy is the daughter of the Reverend Charles Hare, rector of St. Athelstan's in Depression-era Suffolk, England. She serves as a dutiful housekeeper, performs good works, cultivates good thoughts—and pricks her arm with a pin when a bad thought arises.


       


      But even as she toils away making costumes for the church school play, she is haunted by thoughts about the poverty that surrounds her and the debts she can't afford to pay. Then, suddenly, she finds herself in London. She is wearing silk stockings, has money in her pocket, and cannot remember her own name . . .


       


      This novel of a woman thrust into a strange journey, struck by amnesia and grappling with questions of faith and identity in a world of unemployment and hunger, is a masterful work of satire by one of the great writers of the twentieth century.

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