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A review by jonfaith
A Clergyman's Daughter by George Orwell
4.0
It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.
This is a heartfelt strange novel, one which charts the life of the titular figure in a rural parish, vulnerable to gossip and exorcised by austerity. There is a fragile core to the protagonist, a 28 year old woman, a nascent spinster, a slave almost to the domestic order demanded by her father. Events unfold and the protagonist finds herself without memory of her prior life, and is soon picking hops in the countryside and then begging back in London proper. Matters take a Nicholas Nickleby turn and I found this section the most disturbing: the treatment of children under the aegis of education can so easily be alarming. The existential point made above in the pulled quote exists without answer. The difference between desperation and resignation is sometimes one of interpretation. That truth is a personal one for myself. Dear Eric used his own rough sleeping as research and looked beyond meaning of the quotidian.
This is a heartfelt strange novel, one which charts the life of the titular figure in a rural parish, vulnerable to gossip and exorcised by austerity. There is a fragile core to the protagonist, a 28 year old woman, a nascent spinster, a slave almost to the domestic order demanded by her father. Events unfold and the protagonist finds herself without memory of her prior life, and is soon picking hops in the countryside and then begging back in London proper. Matters take a Nicholas Nickleby turn and I found this section the most disturbing: the treatment of children under the aegis of education can so easily be alarming. The existential point made above in the pulled quote exists without answer. The difference between desperation and resignation is sometimes one of interpretation. That truth is a personal one for myself. Dear Eric used his own rough sleeping as research and looked beyond meaning of the quotidian.