num_pages: 108
description: 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 autobiographical 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.
language: English
title: Great Granny Webster
titlecomplete: Great Granny Webster
genres: Horror, Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, Gothic, British Literature, Womens, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels
ratings_count: 1435
places: Ulster, Northern Ireland, Hove
awards: awardedAt: 220953600000
name: Booker Prize
publisher: New York Review Books