Her father's daughter book review
This book was a collection of short stories centred around father relationships with daughters I struggled to read some of them and others seemed to flow better 332
From the award winning author John Clanchy comes a collection of five new tales that explore the fascinating and often fraught relations between fathers and daughters It is a wise father the adage tells us that knows his own child But equally as the stories in Her Fathers Daughter reveal with great power and insight it is a wise child that knows her own father An honest man confronting the unpalatable facts of his step daughters life decides he must barter truth for lies to protect the woman he loves A teenage girl goes in search of the father she hasnt seen since early childhood only to discover a man startlingly different from the one shes imagined An older man on the cusp of extinction finds that the one person he needs most is the daughter hes never valued Love and loss may drive the stories in Her Fathers Daughter but it is longing a matchless yearning which completes them Her Father s DaughterJohn Clanchy is an award winning Canberra counsellor and academic at the Australian National University He has published five novels and three collections and short stories in magazines newspapers and anthologies His novel He was won the ACT Book of the Year twice for The Hard Word in 2003 and for his collection of stories Vincenzos Garden in 2006 which also won the Steele Rudd Award in 2005 He also writes detective thrillers in collaboration with Mark Henshaw John Clanchy is an award winning Canberra counsellor and academic at the Australian National University He has published five novels and three collections and short stories in magazines newspapers and anthologies His novel He was won the ACT Book of the Year twice for The Hard Word in 2003 and for his collection of stories Vincenzo s Garden in 2006 which also won the Steele Rudd Award in 2005 He also writes detective thrillers in collaboration with Mark Henshaw site_link.
