Jacob Cloete

The Hero's Daughter Jacob Cloete

Tess, no father, and now eighteen and her mother dead too, and still so much to learn, the essentials, the meaning of life, and other challenges too, new places, new ideas, even food - especially preparing food, which she decides to master. And she would so much love to find out more about her dead hero father. Above all she faces the problem of being alone. Alone at home, alone in making choices: which university, how to live according to "mum's rules," how to relate to all her French relatives, including the recurring conflict between her atheism and their Catholicism, how to deal with friendships, and of course, men. Above all is the problem of being alone, of loneliness. Is the answer finding the right man? .