# The Vet’s Daughter

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- Book: [The Vet’s Daughter](https://www.bookquiver.com/barbara-comyns/the-vets-daughter) ([The Vet’s Daughter.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/barbara-comyns/the-vets-daughter.md))
- Authors: [Barbara Comyns](https://www.bookquiver.com/barbara-comyns)
- Publisher: virago
- ISBN: 978-18-4408-838-6
- Published: 2013-07-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

INTRODUCED BY JANE GARDAM 'A small Gothic masterpiece . . . I have read it many times, and with every re-read I marvel again at its many qualities' SARAH WATERS 'It projects its fantastic story with a tangible realness . . . A wonderful and original novel' ALAN HOLLINGHURST 'She shows mastery of the structures of a fast-moving narrative and a consistent backdrop to the ecstasies and agonies of the human condition' JANE GARDAM, SPECTATOR Growing up in Edwardian South London, Alice Rowlands longs for romance and excitement, for a release from a life that is dreary, restrictive and lonely. Her father, a vet, is harsh and domineering; his new girlfriend brash and lascivious. Alice seeks refuge in memories and fantasies, in her rapturous longing for Nicholas, a handsome young sailor and in the blossoming of what she perceives as her occult powers. A series of strange events unfolds that leads her, dressed in bridal white to a scene of ecstatic triumph and disaster among the crowds on Clapham Common. The Vet's Daughter is a uniquely vivid, witty and touching story of love and mystery.