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'I once decided to become friends with someone on the sole basis that she named O Caledonia as her favourite book' Maggie O'Farrell <BR><BR>'A sparky, funny work of genius and one of the best least-known novels of the 20th Century' Ali Smith <BR><BR>'Funny, surprising, exquisitely written and brilliant on the smelly, absurd, harsh business of growing up. The Brontë sisters and Poe via Dodie Smith and Edward Gorey' David Nicholls<BR><BR><BR>'An absolute sumptuous treat of a book' Elizabeth Macneal<BR><BR><BR>'A wonderful oddity - brief, vivid, eccentric, written with ferocious zest and black humour' Penelope Lively<BR><BR><BR>'The words sing in their sentences' The Times<BR><BR><BR>'The reader feels unalloyed joy on every page' Independent<BR><BR>Vera was painting the pony's hooves gold in the dining room; Janet said this was bad for him; poison would seep into his bloodstream.<BR><BR><BR>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.<BR><BR><BR>A life spent in a draughty Scottish castle, where roses will not grow, and a jackdaw decides to live in the doll's house.<BR><BR><BR>A life peopled by prettier, smoother-haired siblings, a Nanny with a face like the North Sea and the peculiar, whisky-swigging Cousin Lila.<BR><BR><BR>A life where Janet is perpetually misunderstood - and must turn from people, to animals, to books, to her own wild and wonderful imagination. <BR><BR><BR>WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAGGIE O'FARRELL
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