Two years after the war, the heroine of Caroline Blackwood's partially autobiographical novel is sent to convalesce from a minor operation at her Great Granny Webster's house in Brighton. But the only sea air she experiences are the drafts that creep into the house where she is required to sit quietly with only Richards, the tyrannized maid, and iron-willed, humourless Great Granny Webster for company. As for the rest of the family, her dashing father Ivor is dead in a jungle grave in Burma, mad Grandmother Dunmartin tried to kill her own grandson at his christening, long-suffering Grandfather Dunmartin allowed his estate to fall into ruin while he pretended his wife was sane enough to run it, and even glamorous Aunt Lavinia - though light-hearted - is determinedly suicidal. The laconic tone in which this motley cast of characters is described only adds to the horror - and the hilarity.
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Hardback Editions
September 1979 : Hardback
| Title: Great Granny Webster Author(s): Caroline Blackwood ISBN: 0-86043-386-2 / 978-0-86043-386-6 (UK edition) Publisher: Prior [etc.] Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
July 1978 : Hardback
| Title: Great Granny Webster Author(s): Caroline Blackwood ISBN: 0-684-15648-2 / 978-0-684-15648-4 (USA edition) Publisher: Scribner Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
September 1977 : Hardback
| Title: Great Granny Webster Author(s): Caroline Blackwood ISBN: 0-7156-1190-9 / 978-0-7156-1190-6 (UK edition) Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
June 2002 : Paperback
| Title: Great Granny Webster (New York Review Books Classics) Author(s): Caroline Blackwood ISBN: 1-59017-007-5 / 9781590170076 (USA edition) Publisher: NYRB Classics Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 1993 : Paperback
| Title: Great Granny Webster Author(s): Caroline Blackwood ISBN: 1-898436-03-7 / 9781898436034 (UK edition) Publisher: Palm Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
September 1978 : Paperback
| Title: Great Granny Webster (Picador Books) Author(s): Caroline Blackwood ISBN: 0-330-25558-4 / 978-0-330-25558-5 (UK edition) Publisher: Macmillan Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1977 : Paperback
| Title: Great Granny Webster Author(s): Caroline Blackwood Publisher: PAN BOOKS LTD (ENGLAND) Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Other Editions
1979 : Unknown
| Title: Great Granny Webster Author(s): Caroline Blackwood ISBN: 0-8161-6713-3 / 978-0-8161-6713-5 (USA edition) Publisher: G. K. Hall Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
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