Barbara Comyns,Kathryn Davis
The Vetâ€™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 wifeâ€™s death, the vet takes up with a crass, needling woman who tries to refashion Alice in her own image. And yet as Alice retreats ever deeper into a dream world, she discovers an extraordinary secret power of her own.,Harrowing and haunting, like an unexpected cross between Flannery Oâ€™Connor and Stephen King, ,The Vetâ€™s Daughter, is a story of outraged innocence that culminates in a scene of appalling triumph.
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The Vet's Daughter