{"product_id":"the-vets-daughter-9781590170298","title":"The Vet's Daughter","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Barbara Comyns\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\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.","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45411594109079,"sku":"9781590170298","price":1162.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781590170298.webp?v=1767444054","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-vets-daughter-9781590170298","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}