Great Granny Webster

A "shocking, brilliant, and wickedly funny" novel that offers a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of eccentric aristocrats (Jonathan Raban, author of Bad Land)

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. 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 06/30/2002
ISBN: 9781590170076
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.06w x 0.34d

Review Citations: PW Notes and Reprints 06/10/2002 pg. 43
Atlantic Monthly 07/01/2002 pg. 189
Publishers Weekly 06/10/2002