# The Vet’s Daughter

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- Authors: [Barbara Comyns](https://www.bookquiver.com/barbara-comyns)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2013-07-04

## Description

'A small Gothic masterpiece . . . I have read it many times, and with every re-read I marvel again at its many qualities' SARAH WATERS 'A wonderful and original novel' ALAN HOLLINGHURST 'The strange off-beat talent of Barbara Comyns [whose] innocent eye observes with child-like simplicity the most fantastic or the most ominous occurrence' GRAHAM GREENE 'Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else' MAGGIE O'FARRELL I comforted myself with the knowledge that at least I wasn't earthbound like most people. In a house full of screeching animals in Edwardian South London, Alice lives in the shadow of her domineering father. Longing to escape, she retreats ever deeper into a world of memories, fantasies and rapturous longings - until she discovers an extraordinary secret power of her own. But the strange events that unfold lead her, dressed in bridal white, to a scene of ecstatic triumph and disaster among the crowds on Clapham Common. Blackly funny and indelibly haunting, The Vet's Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. INTRODUCED BY JANE GARDAM

## Editions

### The Vet’s Daughter

- Publisher: virago
- ISBN: 978-03-4901-966-6
- Published: 2026-01-22
- Language: en_GB

### The Vet’s Daughter

- Publisher: virago
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0552-234-2
- Published: 2013-07-04
- Language: en_GB

### The Vet’s Daughter

- Publisher: virago
- ISBN: 978-18-4408-838-6
- Published: 2013-07-04
- Language: en_GB

### The Vet's Daughter

- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-15-9017-029-8
- Pages: 152
- Published: 2003-04-30
- Language: en_US