I thought. I wished I knew what was supposed to happen when we got back to the car. St Winifred's had been as reticent about this as about Economics." Viola discussing her future job in Berkshire with her parents: "Now, Viola dear, no more arguments. You'll thank me for this when you've got three beautiful children and a husband you adore. Won't she, Harry?" "Always provided she doesn't have them in that order," chuckled Father. There are times, I must admit, when I actively dislike Father. He'll sell his own daughter down the river, just so that he can make a silly, and rather coarse, joke. Film, TV or theatrical adaptations Oh My Darling Daughter was filmed in West Germany in 1974 as Als Mutter streikte (When Mother Went on Strike). The film was directed by Eberhard Schröder and starred Peter Hall (as "Dr. Harry Kemper"), Johanna Matz (Clementine), Belinda Mayne (Viola), Gila von Weitershausen (Gloria), and Elisabeth Flickenschildt (Aunt Clarissa). See also Bildungsroman The Daily Telegraph — read by the Kembles, who are Conservative, and mentioned several times throughout the novel Read on Josephine Humphreys's novel Rich in Love (1987), set among the well-to-do inhabitants of Charleston, South Carolina and surroundings, shows quite a number of striking parallels to Oh My Darling Daughter. It is also about a mother who leaves her family because she believes she cannot cope any more. Like in Malpass's novel, the first person narrator is a 17-year-old girl who realises that it is now up to her to replace her mother and manage the affairs of the whole family. 1970 British novels English novels Novels set in Derbyshire British bildungsromans British novels adapted into films