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Daniel Come to Judgement (1974)

door Mary Hocking

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When President Aluwawa purges his country of foreign helpers Daniel Kerr, a micro-biologist, returns to Yeominster, feeling displaced and dispossessed. Yet he has a family there. His wife, Erica, more used to his absence than his presence, and two children, Emma and Giles. But family togetherness is short-lived, for Daniel has a gift for disruption, and it is a relief when he is posted to a research unit at Brocklehurst. But Brocklehurst is not his scene and he resigns on grounds of conscience, thus providing the press with a new sensation. Finding a job teaching at his son's school, he becomes entangled in a controversy over a bypass, and when the Yeominster Conservation Society fails in its object, the schoolboy revolutionaries take over traffic control and for one memorable day the life of Yeominster is turned upside down. In a manner which is thoughtful, lucid and humorous, Mary Hocking relates personal problems and private causes to social problems and public causes, neither easily coped with, or avoided.… (meer)

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Mary Hocking was a solidly middle-brow writer from the early '60s through the early '90s, filling the void left by Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, and others who wrote mainly for women. A reader of Hocking can expect accomplished writing with very occasional breathtaking turns of phrase, wit, irony, deft plotting, and felicitous characterization. [Daniel Come to Judgement] from 1974 is not among her very best, but it certainly contains the hallmarks of MH's work and is a pleasure to read.
Daniel Kerr is a micro-biologist, sent back to England from his research employment in Africa by the African ruler. His presence is an interruption in the lives of his wife and teen-age children as well as that of his sister and mother-in-law with whom they live. If Daniel comes to judgement, so do Erica, Giles, Emma, Dorothy, and Mrs. Prentice.
MH takes her time setting up the situation so that we have a clear idea of what each character is doing and why. MH's social skewers are both gentle and adept, and the climax is laugh-out-loud funny. Well worth the bit of time spent reading this small book! (

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When President Aluwawa purges his country of foreign helpers Daniel Kerr, a micro-biologist, returns to Yeominster, feeling displaced and dispossessed. Yet he has a family there. His wife, Erica, more used to his absence than his presence, and two children, Emma and Giles. But family togetherness is short-lived, for Daniel has a gift for disruption, and it is a relief when he is posted to a research unit at Brocklehurst. But Brocklehurst is not his scene and he resigns on grounds of conscience, thus providing the press with a new sensation. Finding a job teaching at his son's school, he becomes entangled in a controversy over a bypass, and when the Yeominster Conservation Society fails in its object, the schoolboy revolutionaries take over traffic control and for one memorable day the life of Yeominster is turned upside down. In a manner which is thoughtful, lucid and humorous, Mary Hocking relates personal problems and private causes to social problems and public causes, neither easily coped with, or avoided.

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