“The Vicar’s Daughter” is a novel nothing like the sarcastic “Animal Farm” and the grim dystopia “1984.”
A novel that will introduce you to another Orwell—the master of psychological realism. The heroine, Dorothy, the priest’s daughter—deeply religious and leading a righteous life— as a result of an accident loses her memory and completely forgets her faith in God. Dorothy becomes a small-time fraudster and attaches herself to a gang of drifters. After a while, her memory returns, but not her faith…