{"product_id":"9781474620512-o-caledonia","title":"O Caledonia","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'A surreal, hilarious and dark story of a troubled adolescence deep in the wilds of Scotland' \u003cb\u003eMaggie O'Farrell, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I once decided to become friends with someone on the sole basis that she named \u003ci\u003eO Caledonia\u003c\/i\u003e as her favourite book' \u003cbr\u003eMaggie O'Farrell    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A sparky, funny work of genius and one of the best least-known novels of the 20th Century' \u003cbr\u003eAli Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Funny, surprising, exquisitely written and brilliant on the smelly, absurd, harsh business of growing up'\u003cbr\u003eDavid Nicholls\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A wonderful oddity - brief, vivid, eccentric, written with ferocious zest and black humour'\u003cbr\u003ePenelope Lively\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA life spent in a draughty Scottish castle, where roses will not grow, and a jackdaw decides to live in the doll's house.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA life peopled by prettier, smoother-haired siblings, a Nanny with a face like the North Sea and the peculiar, whisky-swigging Cousin Lila.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA life where Janet is perpetually misunderstood - and must turn from people, to animals, to books, to her own wild and wonderful imagination.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA W\u0026amp;N Essential with an introduction by Maggie O'Farrell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39564615188577,"sku":"9781474620512","price":8.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_10960029_jpg.jpg?v=1714054520","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781474620512-o-caledonia","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}