O Caledonia
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O Caledonia
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Eilidh Beaton
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Eilidh Beaton
'A SPARKY, FUNNY WORK OF GENIUS' ALI SMITH
'RARE, THRILLING, ONE OF A KIND' MAGGIE O'FARRELL
At the bottom of a great stone staircase, dressed in her mother's black lace evening dress, twisted in murderous death and lamented only by her pet jackdaw, lies Janet. So end the sixteen years of Janet's short life.
A life spent in a draughty Scottish castle, where roses will not grow and a jackdaw lives in the doll's house.
A life peopled by prettier, smoother-haired siblings, a nanny with a face like the North Sea and peculiar, whisky-swigging Cousin Lila.
A life where Janet is perpetually misunderstood - and must turn from people, to animals, to books, to her own wild and wonderful imagination.
In the tradition of Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle, this is a darkly humorous modern classic of Scottish literature, beloved by all who encounter it.
A W&N Essential with an Introduction by Maggie O'Farrell
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A sparky, funny work of genius about class, romanticism, social tradition and literary tradition, and one of the best least-known novels of the 20th century
A surreal, hilarious and dark story of a troubled adolescence deep in the wilds of Scotland
O Caledonia is like a bunch of flowers. Vivid images are handed to the reader one after the other and the colours are often freakish
Elspeth Barker's is a wholly original literary voice. O CALEDONIA, first published 20 years ago, reads as freshly now as then. Steeped in classical allusions, rich in Scottish - and natural - history, fantastical in its highly wrought characters, this coming-of-age-novella is as passionately intense as it is wittily acerbic... Propelled by the sheer force of words, the horrors and humours plunge on, observed by an eye both youthful and perspicacious... The reader feels unalloyed joy, and occasional winces, on every page
Full of life, energized by braker's thistle-sharp eye for natural detail
A poetic and passionate description of adolescence. The words sing in their sentences. A world is evoked that has shades of the Brontë sisters and of Poe
This is an extraordinary novel: original, beautiful yet tough (Barker loves jaggy, spiky words such as "monkey puzzle", "azaleas", "horizon", anything with a "z" in it), with a sympathetic outsider of a heroine whose tragic fate is depicted on the very first page, puncturing any kind of narrative tension but capturing our attention nevertheless. Few see colour in a grey Scottish day the way Barker does, when a dying winter sun "sheds an unearthly glory; shafting drifts of crimson, green and blue, alive with whirling atoms of dust ..." And yet this darkly magical tale has been forgotten, displaced in the pantheon of great Scottish writing by other, supposedly tougher, work... Barker's love of the classics, her focus on mothers and daughters, and her remarkable evocation of landscape, should mark her out as one of Scotland's principal writers, but fashion and the politics of literary movements have skimmed over her.
Marvellously worked and wielded . . . The love of words, the recognition of their power to give a pulse-beat narrative, made me think of Djuna Barnes as I read, and reread, for pleasure O Caledonia
A novel which, like its heroine, is unique. Poetry flows as rich as blood through the veins of this narrative
A poetic and blackly comic account of an unhappy childhood in a remote setting, recreated so sensuously it makes you feel the wind on the heath. Exquisite
Beautifully written . . . Remarkable
An absolute sumptuous treat of a book (Elizabeth Macneal)
O Caledonia is a Gothic coming-of-age story, the Brontes and Poe via Dodie Smith and Edward Gorey. Funny, surprising, exquisitely written - and brilliant on the smelly, absurd, harsh business of growing-up. (David Nicholls)
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