Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting Category_Grey Books/Education ‘It was my job to

‘It was my job to sit on the set and see how he worked’

The focus is on those starting life

but it makes all the difference

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

What follows is “tragifarce”

Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting Category_Grey Books/Education ‘It was my job toPREFACE 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