{"product_id":"the-vets-daughter-paperback","title":"The Vet's Daughter - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBarbara Comyns\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKathryn Davis\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Vet's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e 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 wife'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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHarrowing and haunting, like an unexpected cross between Flannery O'Connor and Stephen King, \u003ci\u003eThe Vet's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of outraged innocence that culminates in a scene of appalling triumph.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarbara Comyns (1909-1992) was born in Bidford-on-Avon, in the English county of Warwickshire, one of six children of an increasingly unsuccessful Birmingham brewer. Living on the run-down but romantic family estate and receiving her education from governesses, she began to write and illustrate stories at the age of ten. After her father's death, she attended art school in London and married a painter, with whom she had two children she supported by trading antiques and classic cars, modeling, breeding poodles, and renovating apartments. A second marriage, to Richard Comyns Carr, who worked in the Foreign Office, took place during World War II. Comyns wrote her first book, \u003ci\u003eSisters by the River\u003c\/i\u003e (1947), a series of sketches based on her childhood, while living in the country to escape the Blitz, which is also when she made an initial sketch for \u003ci\u003eThe Vet's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e. This, however, she put aside to complete \u003ci\u003eOur Spoons Came from Woolworths\u003c\/i\u003e (1950), about her first marriage, and \u003ci\u003eWho was Changed and Who was Dead\u003c\/i\u003e (1955). \u003ci\u003eThe Vet's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1959. Among Barbara Comyns's other books are the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Skin Chairs\u003c\/i\u003e (1962) and \u003ci\u003eThe Juniper Tree\u003c\/i\u003e (1985), and \u003ci\u003eOut of the Blue into the Red\u003c\/i\u003e (1960), a work of nonfiction about Spain, where she lived for eighteen years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.42 x 8.12 x 5.02 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 30, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52082916589869,"sku":"9781590170298","price":18.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/the-vets-daughter-paperback-8458251.webp?v=1780163534","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-vets-daughter-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}