The Vet's Daughter John Baxter both deeply personal and intricately

both deeply personal and intricately connected to the socio-economic

SUNDAY TIMES and NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR**

’Deftly plotted

In Barcelona

flying through the sky at night

The Vet's Daughter John Baxter both deeply personal and intricatelyThe 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