10,66 € She never shied away from bleakness, but the bleakness is usually leavened by humor and moments of lightheartedness, but unfortunately there is virtually none of either here. I long to float towards a ceiling. I love Comyns unreservedly, but this is by far my least favorite of her books I've read. 6,52 € 8,29 € But the story itself? It’s rare that a debut novel gets the kind of love and attention that Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing, which spanned centuries and continents, received.   She was twice married, and she and her second husband lived in Spain for eighteen years, returning to the UK in the early 1970s. by New York Review Books She recounts each weird and awful detail of her life matter-of-factly - “He would have hit me if he hadn’t been holding the mongoose” - and it’s compelling reading. 5,68 € 11,07 € Alice is a downtrodden Edwardian daughter of a violent, abusive vet ( he sells puppies to a vivisectionist and has a miserable parrot who is picking himself bald). The Vet's daughter tells of young girl living in a totally dysfunctional famiy with her invalid mother and abusive and drunken vet father. Tragedy assaults her and quietly she accepts it; we watch it again and again.

I don't want to be here when your father returns. The Vet’s Daughter is a uniquely vivid, witty and touching story of love and mystery.   Her father was a semi-retired managing director of a Midland chemical firm.   Barbara Comyns visits this storyline with her own added edge in the 1958-published novel, “The Veterinarian’s Daughter”. “We forgot about the flowers,” is right!). She was twice married, and she and her second husband lived in Spain for eighteen years, returning to the UK in the early 1970s. 5,16 €   I question the first-person narration only in relation to the ending, especially with oneAs with the other Comyns books I’ve read, the narration propels me. Her father was a semi-retired managing director of a Midland chemical firm.  

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I long to be drawn across a frozen pond by some starry man-hunk (a sort of late-Victorian Ice Castles where the protagonist is blind on the inside.   Yet, the magic comes with the presentation of the oft-told tale.  

I have no idea how to rate it and am sitting here trying to make sense of my indecisiveness.

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[all her moms die sin her novels, sheesh]) then the story takes a turn from Dickensian brutality and Patrick Hamiltonian urban despair and ennui to "My! 8,99 € A hidden gem.What a strange little tale! Be the first to ask a question about The Vet's Daughter He works constantly, captive to a strange private fury, and treats his family with brutality and contempt. I long for the heath,for tendrils on my rose-pink countenance. I long to be drawn across a frozen pond by some starry man-hunk (a sort of late-Victorian Ice Castles where the protagonist is blind on the inside.
She suffers. 8,63 € 8,99 €

I could not stop reading. 9,81 € 10,69 € That's most of the story right there. -- Sarah Waters A wonderful and original novel * Alan Hollinghurst * A small Gothic masterpiece * Sarah Waters * It just kind of goes from bleak to bleaker to bleaker still.   -- Alan Hollinghurst A small Gothic masterpiece. Alice had an ethereal quality that the author portrayed perfectly, vividly.

I loved Comyns writing style and will definitely be reading more from her. Alice is 17 and living in a home that is truly an abusive and tortuous place, then her mom dies, and things start really going downhill.

The Vet’s Daughter tells the story of Alice, the eponymous vet’s daughter, who lives in an unfashionable area of London with her irritable, brusque, cruel father, her timid, suffering mother and a whole menagerie of animals. Yet, the magic comes with the presentation of the oft-told tale.

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