A Clergyman's Daughter

Dorothy Hare is the ultimate "good girl." As the daughter of a strict, bad-tempered clergyman in a small English town, her life is a dull cycle of church chores, making costumes for plays, and punishing herself for the smallest of sins. But one day, Dorothy’s world snaps. She suffers a mysterious bout of amnesia and wakes up in the middle of London with no idea who she is. Suddenly, the quiet church girl is thrust into a gritty world of homeless wanderers, hop-pickers in the countryside, and the terrifying reality of having no money and no name. A Clergyman’s Daughter is George Orwell’s most unusual novel—part social commentary, part experimental drama. It explores whether we can ever truly escape our upbringing, or if we are always just one "memory" away from the life we tried to leave behind.