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Vet's Daughter

Barbara Comyns
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books set in London
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clapham
classics with bite
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gothic
green spines
haunting
if you like Shirley Jackson
Marina Warner
novella
O Caledonia
occult
sarah waters
Shirley Jackson
short books
Sisters by a River
surreal
The Fate of Mary Rose
The Stepdaughter
virago modern classics
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead

Product details

  • ISBN 9780349019666
  • Weight: 145g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 208mm
  • Publication Date: 22 Jan 2026
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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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
About Barbara Comyns
Born in 1909 at Bidford-on-Avon, Barbara Comyns was educated mainly by governesses until she went to art schools in Stratfordupon-Avon and London. She started writing fiction at the age of ten and her first novel, Sisters by a River, was published in 1947. She also worked in an advertising agency, a typewriting bureau, dealt in old cars and antique furniture, bred poodles, converted and let flats, and exhibited pictures in The London Group. She was married first in 1931, to an artist, and for the second time in 1945. With her second husband she lived in Spain for eighteen years. She died in 1992.

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