Great Granny Webster
Caroline Blackwood
Great Granny Webster was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. 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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Duckworth
- Year
- 2012
- ISBN-13
- 9781590175385
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topics
- Family dysfunctionAristocracy and classComing of age
Awards
- The Booker PrizeShortlistedMajor(1977)
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