Daddy's Gone A-Hunting by Penelope Mortimer

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

Penelope Mortimer with Robin Weaver (Narrator)

6 hours, 34 minutes • first pub 1958 (editions)

fiction classics emotional reflective sad medium-paced
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A breakthrough novel of suburban loneliness and subversion—“her style, spare and singular, cuts through the decades like a scalpel” (Rachel Cooke, The Observer)Bourgeois housewife Ruth Whiting is “paralysed by triviality,” measuring out her days i...

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Community Reviews Summary of 145 reviews

Moods

emotional 69%
reflective 63%
sad 52%
dark 41%
challenging 32%
tense 26%
funny 4%
hopeful 2%
mysterious 2%

Pace

medium 55%
slow 25%
fast 19%

Plot- or character-driven?

Character: 73% | A mix: 18% | Plot: 7%

Strong character development?

Yes: 46% | It's complicated: 35% | No: 17%

Loveable characters?

It's complicated: 46% | No: 28% | Yes: 25%

Diverse cast of characters?

No: 92% | It's complicated: 2% | N/A: 2% | Yes: 2%

Flaws of characters a main focus?

Yes: 59% | It's complicated: 27% | No: 13%

Average rating

3.92

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