{"product_id":"9781474620512","title":"O Caledonia","description":"\u003cp\u003eI once decided to become friends with someone on the sole basis that she named O Caledonia as her favourite book' Maggie O'Farrell 'A sparky, funny work of genius and one of the best least-known novels of the 20th Century' Ali Smith'Funny, surprising, exquisitely written and brilliant on the smelly, absurd, harsh business of growing up'David Nicholls'A wonderful oddity - brief, vivid, eccentric, written with ferocious zest and black humour'Penelope LivelyAt the bottom of a great stone staircase, dressed in her mother's black lace evening dress, twisted in murderous death, lies Janet. So end the sixteen years of Janet's short life. A life spent in a draughty Scottish castle, where roses will not grow, and a jackdaw decides to live in the doll's house. A life peopled by prettier, smoother-haired siblings, a Nanny with a face like the North Sea and the peculiar, whisky-swigging Cousin Lila. A life where Janet is perpetually misunderstood - and must turn from people, to animals, to books, to her own wild and wonderful imagination. A W\u0026amp;N Essential with an introduction by Maggie O'Farrell\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elspeth Barker","offers":[{"title":"224 pages \/ 30\/09\/2021 \/ Classic fiction (pre c 1945)","offer_id":56968183841143,"sku":"9781474620512","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781474620512_28409d6e-e96d-4e67-b277-615d85cfa1fd.jpg?v=1779302858","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781474620512","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}