· The Vet’s Daughterby Barbara Comyns ()NYRB Classics () pp. W oah — The Vet’s Daughter is quite the book. I have had it on my shelf for a long time, which is just the reason it found its way to my List of Betterment: NYRB Classics Edition, or the list of ten older NYRB Classics that I’m for sure going to read in · The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns - review. 'I couldn't see any of the humour which Sarah Waters identified. I thought it was all just too strange'. A B i Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins. The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns by Backlisted Podcast published on TZ Writer, academic and contributing editor of Bookanista Lucy Scholes joins Andy, John and Mathew on the pod to talk 'The Vet's Daughter', the extraordinary novel of an extraordinary girl in .
Barbara Comyns's strange little book The Vet's Daughter () is narrated by Alice Rowlands, a seventeen-year-old girl who temporarily escapes the desperate circumstances of her home life when she takes a position as companion to an old woman, the mother of one her father's colleagues. This woman, a Mrs. Peebles, is so sunk into depression or anxiety or ennui or something that she earns. The Vet's Daughter Quotes Showing of 5. "It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church.". ― Barbara Comyns, The Vet's Daughter. tags: church, old-people, sunday. The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns The Vet's Daughter 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.
The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns - review. 'I couldn't see any of the humour which Sarah Waters identified. I thought it was all just too strange'. A B i t C r a z y. Mon EDT. Barbara Comyns visits this storyline with her own added edge in the published novel, “The Veterinarian’s Daughter”. “The Veterinarian’s Daughter” follows the abo An unhappy, teenaged-daughter living within the confines of an emotionally abusive father and an almost invalid mother who passes only to leave the daughter to fend for herself in the tortured home, aching to be free. The Vet’s Daughterby Barbara Comyns ()NYRB Classics () pp. W oah — The Vet’s Daughter is quite the book. I have had it on my shelf for a long time, which is just the reason it found its way to my List of Betterment: NYRB Classics Edition, or the list of ten older NYRB Classics that I’m for sure going to read in
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