Author : Barbara Comyns
Release : 2003-04-30
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 298/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Vet's Daughter by : Barbara Comyns
Download or read book The Vet's Daughter written by Barbara Comyns. This book was released on 2003-04-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.