{"product_id":"great-granny-webster-by-caroline-blackwood-9780349019062","title":"Great Granny Webster","description":"\u003cb\u003eCaroline Blackwood's masterpiece, shortlisted for the 1977 Booker Prize - a gothic family drama in miniature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis macabre, viciously funny, partly autobiographical novel cuts to the bone of a dysfunctional dynasty, and captures Blackwood at her pitch-black best. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'One of the greatest, darkest writers who ever lived' \u003cb\u003eVirginia Feito\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Caroline Blackwood sits firmly alongside the greats like Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith' \u003cb\u003eAraminta Hall\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 'Idiosyncratic, dark and extremely funny' \u003cb\u003eLucy Scholes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'A unique literary experience' \u003cb\u003ePhilip Larkin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Full of genuine black humour' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47288474730732,"sku":"9780349019062","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7229679d6bcd07e06d38b5722afb74de.jpg?v=1770630974","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/great-granny-webster-by-caroline-blackwood-9780349019062","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}