# @thebookerprizes on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DdbtT6sAreE
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/70670897-thebookerprizes-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-09-18T15:00:27.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Booker Prizes (@thebookerprizes) — https://gondola.cc/thebookerprizes

## Caption

What happens when a writer turns their own family history into a dark, wickedly funny novel?

Caroline Blackwood’s Great Granny Webster draws on the author’s own aristocratic family, transforming memories, facts and macabre imagination into a portrait of a deeply dysfunctional family. Now, almost 50 years after the novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, John Banville revisits Blackwood’s strange and brilliant book, and considers the woman behind it.

Read John Banville on Great Granny Webster via the link in our bio.

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| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The Booker Prizes | @thebookerprizes | https://gondola.cc/thebookerprizes | Awards Organization |

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