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    Do You Have A Daughter?

    By David Pearce

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    Not all daughters live up to expectations. I wanted a thin one with dark eyes. I would adore her and be an exemplary father. People would come to me for advice on exemplary fatherhood. I planned DIY manuals. Isabel made no attempt to be adorable or thin. Aided and abetted by her mother she ate her way into the record books. Her school life was fraught with conflict. They called her The Blob but she responded to the enigmatic Finzi. Was it Finzi who suggested a visit to Oradour-sur-Glane, a French village massacred by German SS troops? I was forced reluctantly to take her. For me it was a revelation. Who was this girl, my daughter, moved to tears by her experience? Had I ever understood the first thing about her?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDAVID R PEARCE
    Release dateNov 29, 2017
    ISBN9781386808367
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    David Pearce

    Well past his sell-by date, Dave Pearce does what he can to keep fit walking and cycling in the Ardeche region of southern France where he lives. 

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