Elspeth Barker

Scottish novelist and journalist (1940–2022)

Elspeth Barker was a Scottish novelist and journalist whose gothic novel O Caledonia became a cult classic, known for its combination of detailed imagery of Scotland and its ironic dark humour.

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O Caledonia

By Elspeth Barker

This first novel explores the chain of events which, in the social circumstances and mores of Scotland of the forties and fifties, cause the bizarre death of a young girl. This novel won the RSL's Winifred Holtby Prize for the…