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O Caledonia
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- Book Synopsis
- 'I 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' Ali Smith 'The reader feels unalloyed joy on every page' IndependentAt 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&N Essential with an introduction by Maggie O'Farrell '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 LivelyReaders love this classic: 'Macabre, funny and sad. Beautifully written' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Dizzying heights and depths of despair' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Poetically written ... I will read it over and over' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Poetic, magical, disturbing ... and comforting' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'I am so happy that I chanced across this book, whilst simultaneously being devastated that I have only just discovered it' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
- About The Author
- Elspeth Barker (1940-2022) was a novelist and journalist. She was born in 1940 in Edinburgh. Her first husband was the poet George Barker. Her novel O Caledonia won four awards and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. She wrote for the Independent on Sunday, Guardian, Sunday Times, Observer, LRB, TLS, Scotland on Sunday, Vogue, The Literary Review and many more.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781474620512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (30 September 2021)
- Number of Pages
- 224
- Weight
- 204 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 200 x 126 x 20 mm
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