- Hardcover: 232 pages
- Publisher: Black Dog Books (1 Oct 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0956567207
- ISBN-13: 978-0956567208
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 2.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 565,511 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Elspeth Barker produces magic and menace in the Scottish Highlands. A whiff of Molly Keane, a glint of Edgar Allan Poe, yet essentially a brave new voice - it is a memorable debut' -- Rachel Billington 1991
'O Caledonia is like a bunch of flowers. Vivid images are handed to the reader one after another and the colours are often freakish' -- The Guardian 1991
'a poetic and passionate description of adolescence...shades of the Bronte sisters and Poe.' -- The Times 1991
'A startingly orginal first novel...which did not put a foot wrong from its beautiful and heart-rending beginning to its dramatic close.' -- Shena Mackay, foreword to 2010 edition
'O Caledonia is like a bunch of flowers. Vivid images are handed to the reader one after another and the colours are often freakish' -- The Guardian 1991
'a poetic and passionate description of adolescence...shades of the Bronte sisters and Poe.' -- The Times 1991
'A startingly orginal first novel...which did not put a foot wrong from its beautiful and heart-rending beginning to its dramatic close.' -- Shena Mackay, foreword to 2010 edition
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Janet lies murdered at the foot of the castle stairs, oddly attired in her mother's black lace evening dress, lamented only by her pet jackdaw...
Brought up in the unrelenting chill of Calvinism and the Scottish climate, Janet turns to her risque Aunt Lila, to literature and to nature. People, birds and beasts move in a gleeful danse macabre through the lowering landscape in a tale that is as rich and atmospheric as it is witty and mordant. The family motto - Moriens sed Invictus (Dying but Unconquered) - is a fitting epitaph for this wild, courageous girl.
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