**'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 f...

Écosse, au milieu du XXe siècle. Janet, seize ans, est retrouvée assassinée au pied de l’escalier de la demeure familiale, vêtue de la robe en dentelle noire de sa mère. Ce qui commence comme un roman policier sera en fait le récit rétrospectif de la courte et triste vie de Janet. Dans une région battue par les vents, elle grandit entourée de frères et de sœurs plus beaux et plus brillants qu’elle. Incomprise par les adultes, rejetée par les autres enfants, Janet trouve refuge auprès des a...

**'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 funny. What a pleasure it was to read'ESTHER FREUD'Joyous, startling, funny, lush, dark and complex'**THE TIMESIn Notes from the Henhouse, you will find:A Gothic castle, a draughty Norf...

Una de las grandes joyas del siglo XX de la literatura escocesa.O Caledonia, la excepcional primera novela de Elspeth Barker, evoca el frío implacable del calvinismo y el clima de la inhóspita Escocia rural. Es un mundo de aislamiento y soledad, donde Janet, la joven protagonista de Barker, recurre cada vez con más ahínco a la literatura, a la naturaleza y a su singular tía Lila, que ofrece a la niña pequeños remansos de paz en una vida por lo demás misera...

'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

'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 funny. What a pleasure it was to read'ESTHER FREUD'Joyous, startling, funny, lush, dark and complex'THE TIM...

Una de les grans joies de la literatura escocesa del segle XX.O Caledònia, l'excepcional primera novel·la d'Elspeth Barker, evoca el fred implacable del calvinisme i el clima de la inhòspita Escòcia rural. És un món d'aïllament i de soledat, en què la Janet, la jove protagonista de Barker, es refugia, cada cop més sovint, en la literatura, la natura i la seva singular tieta Lila, que proporciona a la nena petits moments de pau en una vida dura i miserable....