Book Review
Sep. 6th, 2006 05:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariGreat Granny Webster
by Caroline Blackwood
This very brief novel concerns three generations of women in an upper-class British family in the early part of the 20th century, as seen by their teenaged descendant. Not much plot, lots of character description. Each of the women is decidedly eccentric: the incredibly repressed and overly upright title character, the narrator's insane grandmother Dunmartin, and her flighty yet suicidal Aunt Lavinia. I'm not sure whether these people are meant to provide an amusing portrait of the strangeness under the facade of a well-to-do family, or whether they are meant to represent the particular peculiarities of their respective eras. Either way, the book is an interesting read.
by Caroline Blackwood
This very brief novel concerns three generations of women in an upper-class British family in the early part of the 20th century, as seen by their teenaged descendant. Not much plot, lots of character description. Each of the women is decidedly eccentric: the incredibly repressed and overly upright title character, the narrator's insane grandmother Dunmartin, and her flighty yet suicidal Aunt Lavinia. I'm not sure whether these people are meant to provide an amusing portrait of the strangeness under the facade of a well-to-do family, or whether they are meant to represent the particular peculiarities of their respective eras. Either way, the book is an interesting read.
