The Vet's Daughter: A Virago Modern Classic

Author: Barbara Comyns; Jane Gardam (Introduction by)

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Price : $32.00 NZD
ISBN : 9781844088386
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Imprint : Virago Press
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Weight (g) : 0.146
Publication date : 01 July 2013
Dimensions : 198mm X 126mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
RRP : 32.0
Availability date : 01 July 2013
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Author : Barbara Comyns; Jane Gardam (Introduction by)
Edition : 1307
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Language : English
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Pages : 208
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The Vet's Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridden wife and shy daughter Alice in a sinister London suburb. He works constantly, captive to a strange private fury, and treats his family with brutality and contempt. After his wife's death, the vet takes up with a crass, needling woman who tries to refashion Alice in her own image. And yet as Alice retreats ever deeper into a dream world, she discovers an extraordinary secret power of her own.

Harrowing and haunting, like an unexpected cross between Flannery O'Connor and Stephen King, The Vet's Daughter is a story of outraged innocence that culminates in a scene of appalling triumph.

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