A review by emmkayt
The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns

5.0

Strange and wonderful and macabre. Alice is a downtrodden Edwardian daughter of a violent, abusive vet ( he sells puppies to a vivisectionist and has a miserable parrot who is picking himself bald). She recounts each weird and awful detail of her life matter-of-factly - “He would have hit me if he hadn’t been holding the mongoose” - and it’s compelling reading. You want it to all turn out well and wonder where it can be going...