{"product_id":"great-granny-webster","title":"Great Granny Webster By Blackwood, Caroline","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaroline Blackwood''s masterpiece, shortlisted for the 1977 Booker Prize - a gothic family drama in miniature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. She presides over three generations of ill-fated women, and a twisted family history which spools back through hedonistic 20s London to a crumbling aristocratic pile where two children are kept silently hidden in a distant wing. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis macabre, viciously funny, partly autobiographical novel cuts to the bone of a dysfunctional dynasty, and captures Blackwood at her pitch-black best. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''One of the greatest, darkest writers who ever lived'' \u003cb\u003eVirginia Feito\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Caroline Blackwood sits firmly alongside the greats like Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith'' \u003cb\u003eAraminta Hall\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''Idiosyncratic, dark and extremely funny'' \u003cb\u003eLucy Scholes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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'' \u003cb\u003eJonathan Raban\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A unique literary experience'' \u003cb\u003ePhilip Larkin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Great Granny Webster feels more like a memoir than a novel...but it is as gripping as a whodunit'' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Full of genuine black humour'' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57853960847742,"sku":"NW9780349019062","price":10.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780349019062.jpg?v=1786780148","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/great-granny-webster","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}