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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781844088386
Price: £8.99
ON SALE: 4th July 2013
Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)
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.
Reviews
A small Gothic masterpiece.
Sarah Waters
A wonderful and original novel.
Alan Hollinghurst
A small Gothic masterpiece
Sarah Waters
A wonderful and original novel
Alan Hollinghurst