Barbara Comyns

The Vet's Daughter

A Virago Modern Classic

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 128mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 145g
• ISBN-13: 9780349019666
• ISBN-10: 0349019665
• Artikelnr.: 70975457

Autorenporträt

Barbara Comyns