George Orwell's A Clergyman's Daughter 1964 - Penguin

Title: A Clergyman's Daughter
Author: George Orwell
Publisher: Penguin
Publication Date: 1964
Format: Softcover
Condition: This book is in a good condition for its age other than some minor signs of wear and inscription.

Reader's note

A Clergyman's Daughter is an experimental title from the great George Orwell. This book tells of Dorothy, a bored housewife whoose life is turned on it's head after she wakes up and it unable to recall what happened to her for eight days. She begins her life as such - She had remembered, with the ugly shock with which one remembers something disagreeable for the first time in the morning, the bill at Cargill's, the butcher's, which had been owing for seven months. That dreadful bill—it might be nineteen pounds or even twenty, and there was hardly the remotest hope of paying it—was one of the chief torments of her life. At all hours of the night or day it was waiting just round the corner of her consciousness, ready to spring upon her and agonize her; and with it came the memory of a score of lesser bills, mounting up to a figure of which she dared not even think. Almost involuntarily she began to pray, 'Please God, let not Cargill send in his bill again today!' but the next moment she decided that this prayer was worldly and blasphemous, and she asked forgiveness for it. Then she put on her dressing-gown and ran down to the kitchen in hopes of putting the bill out of mind. - find out how she is removed from her unappreciated life in this brilliant book!