{"product_id":"the-vets-daughter-a-virago-modern-classic","title":"The Vet's Daughter A Virago Modern Classic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\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\u003cbr\u003e 'A wonderful and original novel' ALAN HOLLINGHURST\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'The strange off-beat talent of Barbara Comyns [whose] innocent eye observes with child-like simplicity the most fantastic or the most ominous occurrence'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eGRAHAM GREENE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else' MAGGIE O'FARRELL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Blackly funny and indelibly haunting, The Vet's Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCED BY JANE GARDAM\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47926477619338,"sku":null,"price":992.13,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0326\/6727\/1306\/files\/Adsiztasarim-2026-04-04T141223.718.png?v=1775667119","url":"https:\/\/minoa.com\/en\/products\/the-vets-daughter-a-virago-modern-classic","provider":"Minoa Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}