''Daddy, We Hardly Knew You'' is a 1989 book by feminist academic

Germaine Greer Germaine Greer (; born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and feminist, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminism movement in the latter half of the 20th century. Specializing in English and women's literature, she ...

. The book is a study of her father who was an Australian intelligence officer during World War II. According to Penguin Random House, the book took three years to write and her objective was to discover information about her father, who she claimed had been distant from her during his life.

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, writing for the ''

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'' "found it difficult to stop reading". In her review of the book for the ''

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'', Nancy Mairs wrote "there are plenty of terrific passages... Too often, however, the insights are facile". ''

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'' considered its "deeply affecting climax is a remarkable feat of family reconstruction". Hope Hewitt described it as "an absorbing read, and a many-levelled piece of social history" in the ''

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''.

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1989 non-fiction books Biographical books Books by Germaine Greer English-language non-fiction books {{Bio-book-stub