Daddy's Gone A-hunting Also Published With Title: Cave of IceDaddy's Gone A-hunting Also Published With Title: Cave of Ice

Bourgeois housewife Ruth Whiting is paralysed by triviality, measuring out her days in coffee mornings, glasses of sherry, and bridge parties, routines that barely disturb the solitude of her existence. Her husband spends his weeknights in town, their daughter, eighteen-year-old Angela, is at Oxford and their sons are at boarding school. Then Angela accidentally falls pregnant and Ruth must keep her own past from repeating itself.