The Parson's Daughter. George Orwell

Dorothy Hare is the daughter of the Reverend Charles Hare with all the classic consequences of running a model household, managing a modest church budget, caring for an often irritable and ungrateful father and mandatory visits to the flock of the Church of England, which is gradually losing its position among the faithful, giving way to more modern denominations that are not so far behind the trends of the times. And Dorothy Hare is still unmarried, although she will soon cross the threshold that separates youth from maturity, which, of course, does not add to her optimism about the prospects of her future life.

Dorothy would never have seen anything in her life except a small English town, with no prospects of ever changing or even breaking the hateful circle of her not-so-joyful life, if not for a strange coincidence that tears her out of this gray monotony and throws her into a completely different life - difficult, bizarre, exhausting, but so real...

In the novel "The Parson's Daughter", Orwell reflects on a life without choice, on a hopeless situation, when the fear that nothing will ever change is commensurate with the fear of change, and finally, on the fact that, once free, former prisoners often seek to return to the prison of monotonous predestination, because, in addition to everything, true freedom also has the property of frightening.