O Caledonia - Elspeth Barker

i Once Decided To Become Friends With Someone On The Sole Basis That She Named O Caledonia As Her Favourite Book' Maggie O'farrell 'a Sparky, Funny Work Of Genius' Ali Smith'the Reader Feels Unalloyed Joy On Every Page' Independentat 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.a Life Spent In A Draughty Scottish Castle, Where Roses Will Not Grow, And A Jackdaw Decides To Live In The Doll's House.a Life Peopled By Prettier, Smoother-haired Siblings, A Nanny With A Face Like The North Sea And The 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. A W&n Essential With An Introduction By Maggie O'farrell'funny, Surprising, Exquisitely Written And Brilliant On The Smelly, Absurd, Harsh Business Of Growing Up' David Nicholls'a Wonderful Oddity - Brief, Vivid, Eccentric, Written With Ferocious Zest And Black Humour' Penelope Livelyreaders Love This Classic:'macabre, Funny And Sad.