Great Granny Webster
The rediscovered dark masterpiece shortlisted for the Booker Prize
$23.63
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
17 November 2026
Summary
CAROLINE BLACKWOOD’S MASTERPIECE, SHORTLISTED FOR THE 1977 BOOKER PRIZE
*A New Yorker summer reading pick of 2026*
‘Full of genuine black humour’ - LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS ‘A masterpiece … her humour is as wicked as it is mordant’ - JOHN BANVILLE ‘Caroline Blackwood sits firmly alongside the greats like Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith’ - ARAMINTA HALL
In her gloomy mausoleum of a home, the terrifying matriarch Great Granny Webst…
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: | 17 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 126mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Gloriously wicked … Akin to gleaning family gossip from a superlatively interesting dinner party guest… Taut, entertaining and quite brutal * The Times *
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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