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Great Granny Webster
Paperback, 108 pages, Random House Inc, List Price: $14 | purchase
Genres:
This book is about:
- Hove (England),
- Aristocracy (Social class),
- Grandparent and child,
- Grandmothers,
- Older women,
- Humorous fiction,
- Teenage girls,
- Domestic fiction,
- Fiction
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Three Books...
Putting On Heirs: 3 Rich And Snooty Reads
This razor blade of a novel tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her frosty and bitter Great Granny. The titular relation is rich and stingy, and prefers her freezing-cold house perfectly silent, too. The cast of characters is rounded out with Great Granny Webster's devoted, one-eyed housemaid Richards, and the narrator's flighty and wild Aunt Lavinia, who was famous for showing up to a party wearing nothing but a sanitary towel. Blackwood herself was an heir to the Guinness... more
—Emma Straub
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