The Vet's Daughter - A Virago Modern Classic

INTRODUCED BY JANE GARDAM ''A small Gothic masterpiece . . . I have read it many times, and with every re-read I marvel again at its many qualities'' SARAH WATERS ''It projects its fantastic story with a tangible realness . . . A wonderful and original novel'' ALAN HOLLINGHURST ''She shows mastery of the structures of a fast-moving narrative and a consistent backdrop to the ecstasies and agonies of the human condition'' JANE GARDAM, SPECTATOR 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.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Comyns
• Assisted by: Jane Gardam (Introduction), Gardam Jane (Introduction)
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 23.01.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9780349019666
• ISBN: 978-0-349-01966-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Virago Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Women, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Magical Realism, FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, Horror & ghost stories, Occult fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Horror and supernatural fiction