Daddy, We Hardly Knew You
Daddy, We Hardly Knew You is a book by feminist and academic Germaine Greer first published in 1989 by Alfred A. Knopf and later by Penguin Random House. The book is a biography about 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 that she claimed was distant from her life. Reception. Peter Craven, critic writing for the "Australian Book Review" "found it difficult to stop reading". In her review  of the book for the "LA Times", Nancy Mairs wrote " there are plenty of terrific passages... Too often, however, the insights are facile". "Publishers Weekly" 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 Canberra Times.