We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (Paperback)

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Staff Pick: “This is possibly my favourite novel of all time. Shirley Jackson does such a good job at creating an unsettling, disturbing environment in all her novels but still manages to do so with such wit and charm. If you haven’t read any Jackson yet, I’d recommend starting here. This is a gothic horror novel with a sort of ‘cottage core’ twist set in an isolated countryside village. It follows two sisters who live outcast from their community because one of them may or may not have murdered their whole family six years previously… Perfect for Spooky Season and Autumn in general, I could not recommend this more. ” Amy

Living in the Blackwood family home with only her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian for company, Merricat just wants to preserve their delicate way of life. But ever since Constance was acquitted of murdering the rest of the family, the world isn’t leaving the Blackwoods alone. And when Cousin Charles arrives, armed with overtures of friendship and a desperate need to get into the safe, Merricat must do everything in her power to protect the remaining family.

Shirley Jackson’s masterpiece: the deliciously dark and funny story of Merricat, tomboy teenager, beloved sister – and possible lunatic. ‘Her greatest book … at once whimsical and harrowing, a miniaturist’s charmingly detailed fantasy sketched inside a mausoleum …

Through depths and depths and bloodwarm depths we fall, until the surface is only an eerie gleam high above, nearly forgotten; and the deeper we sink, the deeper we want to go’ Donna Tartt, author of The Goldfinch

ISBN 9780141191454