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      Great Granny Webster

      by Caroline Blackwood
      Published
      Jul 2002
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      128
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      Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

      The real-life Guinness heiress offers an inside look at the lives of eccentric aristocrats in this "masterful . . . macabre fairy-tale and blackly humorous family portrait" (Literary Hub).

      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.

      Great Granny Webster       is Caroline Blackwood's masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original writer.

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      Jul 2002 New York Review of Books ISBN13 9781590170076 ISBN10 1590170075
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      Jan 1977 Gerald Duckworth & Company ISBN13 9780715611906 ISBN10 0715611909
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      Jan 1977 Scribner ISBN13 9780684156484 ISBN10 0684156482
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      Jul 2026 Virago Press (UK) ISBN13 9780349019079 ISBN10 034901907X
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      Dec 1979 G.K. Hall & Company ISBN13 9780816167135 ISBN10 0816167133
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