Title: The vet's daughter
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.
Subjects: English fiction, Fiction, general, Fathers and daughters, Young women, Fiction, Problem families, Dysfunctional families, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, family life, London (england), fiction, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Young women, fiction, Fiction, family life, general
Places: London (England)