The Vet's Daughter

<p><b>'A small Gothic masterpiece . . . I have read it many times, and with every re-read I marvel again at its many qualities' </b>SARAH WATERS<br><b>'A wonderful and original novel' </b>ALAN HOLLINGHURST<br><b>'The strange off-beat talent of Barbara Comyns [whose] innocent eye observes with child-like simplicity the most fantastic or the most ominous occurrence' </b>GRAHAM GREENE <br><b>'Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else'</b> MAGGIE O'FARRELL<br><i><br>I comforted myself with the knowledge that at least I wasn't earthbound like most people.</i><br><br>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. <br><br>Blackly funny and indelibly haunting, The Vet's Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge.<br><br>INTRODUCED BY JANE GARDAM</p>