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

4.0

The world that Barbara Comyns creates for Alice to inhabit in this novel is so rich. I was really captivated by the descriptions of the bonfires in clapham common, German bands playing outside the door, orators in the park, the busyness and claustrophobia but also life of London and the contrast between that and the island in the countryside with the seabirds and spaciousness, and a different kind of life. The more I think about it the more I love this book, in all it’s terror and sadness, and humour and oddity.