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Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwoods masterpiece. Heiress to theGuinness fortune Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzlingraconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original writer. Thismacabre mordantly funny partly autobiographical novel reveals the gothiccraziness behind the scenes in the great houses of the aristocracy aswitnessed through the unsparing eyes of an orphaned teenage girl. Great GrannyWebster herself is a fabulous monster the chilliest of matriarchs presidingwith steely selfregard over a landscape of ruined lives. «
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