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The Vet's Daughter
by Barbara Comyns
🦋Magical realism~152 pages
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Alice Rowlands grows up in a shabby London home ruled by her cruel veterinarian father and shadowed by her mother’s illness. After a disturbing bereavement, Alice discovers she can float above the ground, a gift that offers escape while making her more vulnerable to other people’s ambitions. Told in a deceptively plain, intimate voice, the novel moves between domestic oppression, strange wonder, and sharp social observation. It is a brief, hauntingly readable story about girlhood, grief, power, and the perilous wish to become untouchable.
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