Daddy's Gone A-Hunting by Penelope MortimerMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Thoroughly depressing story of a woman's breakdown in a bad marriage with unsympathetic children in 1958. I loved it. Penelope Mortimer is a skilled writer with superb attention to detail and a real empathy for her main character. The adulterous husband is almost textbook awful. The dialogue is spot on, funny at times, accurate always. I was reminded of Ex-Wife, another sad tale of women's lot in the 1950's which I relished.
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