The Vet's Daughter: A Virago Modern Classic

Barbara Comyns; Jane Gardam (Introduction by)

The Vet's Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridden wife and shy daughter Alice in a sinister London suburb. He works constantly, captive to a strange private fury, and treats his family with brutality and contempt. After his wife's death, the vet takes u...