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Zusatztext A wonderful and original novel. Informationen zum Autor Born in 1909 at Bidford-on-Avon, Barbara Comyns was educated mainly by governesses until she went to art schools in Stratfordupon-Avon and London. She started writing fiction at the age of ten and her first novel, Sisters by a River , was published in 1947. She also worked in an advertising agency, a typewriting bureau, dealt in old cars and antique furniture, bred poodles, converted and let flats, and exhibited pictures in The London Group. She was married first in 1931, to an artist, and for the second time in 1945. With her second husband she lived in Spain for eighteen years. She died in 1992. Jane Gardam is the only writer to have been twice awarded the Whitbread/Costa Prize for Best Novel of the Year, for The Queen of the Tambourine and The Hollow Land . She also holds a Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime's contribution to the enjoyment of literature. She is the author of five volumes of acclaimed stories: Black Faces, White Faces (David Higham Prize and the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize); The Pangs of Love (Katherine Mansfield Prize); Going into a Dark House (Silver Pen Award from PEN); Missing the Midnight ; and The People on Privilege Hill . Her novels include God on the Rocks , which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Faith Fox ; The Flight of the Maidens ; the bestselling Old Filth , which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2005; The Man in the Wooden Hat ; and Last Friends . Jane Gardam was born in Yorkshire. She now lives in east Kent. Jane Gardam is the only writer to have been twice awarded the Whitbread/Costa Prize for Best Novel of the Year, for The Queen of the Tambourine and The Hollow Land . She also holds a Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime's contribution to the enjoyment of literature. She is the author of five volumes of acclaimed stories: Black Faces, White Faces (David Higham Prize and the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize); The Pangs of Love (Katherine Mansfield Prize); Going into a Dark House (Silver Pen Award from PEN); Missing the Midnight ; and The People on Privilege Hill . Her novels include God on the Rocks , which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Faith Fox ; The Flight of the Maidens ; the bestselling Old Filth , which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2005; The Man in the Wooden Hat ; and Last Friends . Jane Gardam was born in Yorkshire. She now lives in east Kent. Klappentext 'A small Gothic masterpiece . . . I have read it many times, and with every re-read I marvel again at its many qualities - its darkness, its strangeness, its humour, its sadness, its startling images and twists of phrase' Sarah Waters Growing up in Edwardian south London, Alice Rowlands longs for romance and excitement, for a release from a life that is dreary, restrictive and lonely. Her father, a vet, is harsh and domineering; his new girlfriend, brash and lascivious. Alice seeks refuge in memories and fantasies, in her rapturous longing for Nicholas, a handsome young sailor, and in the blossoming of what she perceives as her occult powers. A series of strange events unfolds that leads her, dressed in bridal white, to a scene of ecstatic triumph and disaster among the crowds on Clapham Common. The Vet's Daughter is a uniquely vivid, witty and touching story of love and mystery. Vorwort Barbara Comyns' witty and touching classic The Vet's Daughter tells the story of Alice, a young woman from Edwardian South London who is gripped by strange and mysterious powers. Zusammenfassung Barbara Comyns' witty and touching classic The Vet's Daughter tells the story of Alice, a young woman from Edwardian South London who is gripped by s...
