I comforted myself with the knowledge that at least I wasn’t earthbound like most people.
In a house full of screeching animals in Edwardian South London, Alice lives in the shadow of her domineering father. Longing to escape, she retreats ever deeper into a world of memories, fantasies and rapturous longings – until she discovers an extraordinary secret power of her own. But the strange events that unfold lead her, dressed in bridal white, to a scene of ecstatic triumph and disaster among the crowds on Clapham Common.
Blackly funny and indelibly haunting, The Vet’s Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge.
INTRODUCED BY JANE GARDAM
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
Imprint: Virago UK
Publication date: 05/05/2026
Series: Virago Modern Classics
