The vet's daughter
By: Barbara Comyns ; foreword by Kathryn Davis.
Series: New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 133
Subjects: Young women -- Fiction; Problem families -- Fiction; Fathers and daughters -- Fiction; London (England) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "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"--Publisher's description.