The Vet’s Daughter - Barbara Comyns torrent

Category: Adults, General Fiction
Language: English
Keywords: British Literature Magical Realism NYRB Classics

Written by Barbara Comyns
Read by Katherine Press
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

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. 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.

Harrowing and haunting, like an unexpected cross between Flannery O’Connor and Stephen King, The Vet’s Daughter is a story of outraged innocence that culminates in a scene of appalling triumph.

Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
Release date: 03-15-23