Great Granny Webster, Caroline Blackwood's grimly hilarious and semi-autobiograp
hical 1977 tale of boozy, oddball aristocrats is back in print, and its title ch
aracter an impossibly dour and correct old woman is just one of the chilly, ecce
ntric relatives that the teenage narrator has to endure. Other loved ones includ
e a deranged grandmother and a cheerfully suicidal aunt. The novel was shortlist
ed for the Booker Prize when first released. Blackwood, an Irish heiress and one
-time wife of Lucian Freud and Robert Lowell, is the subject of the recent biogr
aphy Dangerous Muse. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information.
