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Great Granny Webster

by Caroline Blackwood
Honor Moore
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
This “masterful novella is equal parts macabre fairy-tale and blackly humorous family portrait,” offering an inside look at the lives of eccentric aristocrats (Literary Hub).
This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the gothic craziness behind the scenes in the great houses of the aristocracy, as witnessed through the unsparing eyes of an orphaned teenage girl. Great Granny Webster herself is a fabulous monster, the chilliest of matriarchs, presiding with steely self-regard over a landscape of ruined lives.
Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood’s masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original writer.
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Publisher: New York Review Books

Kindle Book

  • Release date: April 18, 2012

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  • ISBN: 9781590175385
  • Release date: April 18, 2012

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781590175385
  • File size: 210 KB
  • Release date: April 18, 2012
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Fiction Literature Humor (Fiction)

Languages

English

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
This “masterful novella is equal parts macabre fairy-tale and blackly humorous family portrait,” offering an inside look at the lives of eccentric aristocrats (Literary Hub).
This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the gothic craziness behind the scenes in the great houses of the aristocracy, as witnessed through the unsparing eyes of an orphaned teenage girl. Great Granny Webster herself is a fabulous monster, the chilliest of matriarchs, presiding with steely self-regard over a landscape of ruined lives.
Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood’s masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original writer.
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Fiction Literature Humor (Fiction)