The Vet's Daughter

Barbara Comyns, Kathryn Davis

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New York Review of Books
30 April 2003

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Medical

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.

By: Barbara Comyns
Introduction by: Kathryn Davis
Imprint: New York Review of Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 181g
ISBN: 9781590170298
ISBN 10: 1590170296
Publication Date: 30 April 2003
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Vet's Daughter

Comyns's world is weird and wonderful. Tragic, comic and completely bonkers all in one, I'd go as far as to call her something of a neglected genius. --Lucy Scholes, The Guardian I'd like also to recommend The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns, which hit me like a dangerous drug earlier this year: one of the best books I've ever read. --Wesley Stace, The Believer