{"product_id":"9780349019062","title":"Great Granny Webster : The rediscovered dark masterpiece shortlisted for the Booker Prize - Caroline Blackwood","description":"\u003cp\u003eCAROLINE 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 HALLIn 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. This macabre, viciously funny, partly autobiographical novel cuts to the bone of a dysfunctional dynasty, and captures Blackwood at her pitch-black best. 'Idiosyncratic, dark and extremely funny' LUCY SCHOLES'A unique literary experience' PHILIP LARKIN'As gripping as a whodunit' TLS'Shocking, brilliant, and wickedly funny, Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's best book' JONATHAN RABAN\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Caroline Blackwood","offers":[{"title":"160 pages \/ 06\/08\/2026 \/ Classic fiction (pre c 1945)","offer_id":57299724271991,"sku":"9780349019062","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9780349019062.jpg?v=1783950761","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9780349019062","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}