{"product_id":"9780349019666","title":"Vet's Daughter","description":"\u003cp\u003e'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'FARRELLIn the brown hall my mother was standing; and she looked at me with her sad eyes half-covered by their heavy lids . . . if she had been a dog, my father would have destroyed her.In Edwardian South London, Alice lives in the shadow of her domineering father, a vet who treats his family with contempt, in a house full of screeching animals. After her mother's death, she is appalled by her father's brash, lascivious new girlfriend. But as Alice retreats ever deeper into a world of memories, fantasies and rapturous longings, she discovers an extraordinary secret power of her own - which, finally, will lead her to a crowd on Clapham Common in a scene of ecstatic triumph and disaster.Blackly funny and indelibly haunting, The Vet's Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge.INTRODUCED BY JANE GARDAM\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barbara Comyns","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52536893112638,"sku":"9780349019666","price":315.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/files\/9780349019666.jpg?v=1762783505","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780349019666","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}