Auteur: Elspeth Barker

Janet lies murdered beneath the castle stairs, oddly attired in her mother’s black lace wedding dress, lamented only by her pet jackdaw… In this, her first novel, Elspeth Barker evokes the unrelent …

‘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 nov …

‘This book is heaven. Elspeth Barker writes like no one else’OLIVIA LAING’Deserves to be permanently on the bedside table – to cheer, reassure and inspire’OBSERVER’Gothic, poetic and exuberantly funn …