Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting Category_Grey Books/Education What follows is “tragifarce”

What follows is “tragifarce”

but it makes all the difference

The first novel by one of Canada's most distinguished novelists

experiences a freedom and a sense of achievement not available to most Western teenage girls

Bath has a centuries-old literary heritage

Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting Category_Grey Books/Education What follows is “tragifarce”PREFACE BY VALERIE GROVE 256pp ISBN 9781903155677 Daddys Gone A Hunting, a 1958 novel by Penelope Mortimer, is about the expectations of women: a house bound mother is reluctantly (desperately) at home all day, in contrast to her daughter who has escaped, to university and then, we can assume, to a job. The book came out at a time, writes Valerie Grove in the Preface, when the impact of the new wave of feminism, which would change everything under the