{"product_id":"o-caledonia-w-n-essentials","title":"O Caledonia","description":"\u003cp\u003e'I once decided to become friends with someone on the sole basis that she named O Caledonia as her favourite book' Maggie O'Farrell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A sparky, funny work of genius and one of the best least-known novels of the 20th Century' Ali Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Funny, surprising, exquisitely written and brilliant on the smelly, absurd, harsh business of growing up. The Brontë sisters and Poe via Dodie Smith and Edward Gorey' David Nicholls\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'An absolute sumptuous treat of a book' Elizabeth Macneal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A wonderful oddity - brief, vivid, eccentric, written with ferocious zest and black humour' Penelope Lively\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The words sing in their sentences' The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The reader feels unalloyed joy on every page' Independent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVera was painting the pony's hooves gold in the dining room; Janet said this was bad for him; poison would seep into his bloodstream.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the bottom of a great stone staircase, dressed in her mother's black lace evening dress, twisted in murderous death, lies Janet. So end the sixteen years of Janet's short life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA life spent in a draughty Scottish castle, where roses will not grow, and a jackdaw decides to live in the doll's house.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA life peopled by prettier, smoother-haired siblings, a Nanny with a face like the North Sea and the peculiar, whisky-swigging Cousin Lila.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA life where Janet is perpetually misunderstood - and must turn from people, to animals, to books, to her own wild and wonderful imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAGGIE O'FARRELL\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paperwing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57387849253195,"sku":"9781474620512","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/0643\/5403\/files\/9781474620512.jpg?v=1779282116","url":"https:\/\/paperwing.co.uk\/products\/o-caledonia-w-n-essentials","provider":"Paperwing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}