Great Granny Webster
$25.74
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
26 October 2026
Summary
Caroline Blackwood’s masterpiece, shortlisted for the 1977 Booker Prize - a gothic family drama in miniature
In 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 throug…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349019062 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349019061 |
| Author: | Caroline Blackwood, John Banville |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 26 October 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 126mm x 22mm |
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About The Author
Caroline Blackwood
Caroline Blackwood (1931-1996) was born into a rich Anglo-Irish aristocratic family. She rebelled against her background at an early age and led a hectic and bohemian life, which included marriages to the painter Lucian Freud, the pianist and composer Israel Citkowitz, and the poet Robert Lowell, who described her as ‘a mermaid who dines upon the bones of her winded lovers’. In the 1970s Blackwood began to write. Her novel Great Granny Webster was shortlisted for the 1977 Booker Prize.
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