{"product_id":"great-granny-webster-by-caroline-blackwood-9780349019062","title":"Great Granny Webster","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaroline Blackwood's masterpiece, shortlisted for the 1977 Booker Prize - a gothic family drama in miniature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn her gloomy mausoleum of a home, the terrifying matriarch Great Granny Webster spends her days sitting bolt upright in a Victorian chair, entirely alone except for her one-eyed maid and her orphaned great-granddaughter, sent to stay for the sea air.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe presides over three generations of ill-fated women, and a twisted family history which spools back through hedonistic 1920s London to a crumbling aristocratic pile where two children are kept silently hidden in a distant wing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis macabre, viciously funny, partly autobiographical novel cuts to the bone of a dysfunctional dynasty, and captures Blackwood at her pitch-black best.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'One of the greatest, darkest writers who ever lived' Virginia Feito\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Caroline Blackwood sits firmly alongside the greats like Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith' Araminta Hall\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Idiosyncratic, dark and extremely funny' Lucy Scholes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Shocking, brilliant, and wickedly funny, Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's best book. In the monstrous old dowager of Hove, and the ruling class she represents, Blackwood found a subject grandly commensurate with her own extraordinary style of aghast relish' Jonathan Raban\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A unique literary experience' Philip Larkin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Great Granny Webster feels more like a memoir than a novel... but it is as gripping as a whodunit' TLS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Full of genuine black humour' London Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Caroline Blackwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56680170324341,"sku":"9780349019062","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/4075\/2426\/files\/9780349019062.jpg?v=1769795818","url":"https:\/\/sherlockandpages.com\/products\/great-granny-webster-by-caroline-blackwood-9780349019062","provider":"Sherlock \u0026 Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}