# O Caledonia

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- Authors: [Elspeth Barker](https://www.bookquiver.com/elspeth-barker), [Eilidh Beaton](https://www.bookquiver.com/eilidh-beaton)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2021-09-30

## Description

'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 and one of the best least-known novels of the 20th Century' Ali Smith '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 Lively At 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

## Editions

### O Caledonia

- Publisher: w_n
- ISBN: 978-14-7462-051-2
- Published: 2021-09-30
- Language: en_GB

### O Caledonia

- Publisher: w_n
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-7462-053-6
- Published: 2021-09-30
- Language: en_GB

### O Caledonia

- Publisher: w_n
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7462-052-9
- Published: 2021-09-30
- Language: en_GB

## This book in other languages

- [O Caledonia](https://www.bookquiver.com/elspeth-barker/de/o-caledonia) (de_DE)
- [O Caledonia](https://www.bookquiver.com/elspeth-barker/it/o-caledonia) (it_IT)