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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
  • ISBN: 9780141191454
  • Pages: 175
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • Binding: Paperback

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson
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‘Her greatest book . . . at once whimsical and harrowing, a miniaturist’s charmingly detailed fantasy sketched inside a mausoleum . . . the deeper we sink, the deeper we want to go.’ Donna Tartt

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 won’t leave the Blackwoods alone. When Cousin Charles arrives Merricat must do everything in her power to protect her remaining family.

Reviewed by Kate Young in Slightly Foxed Issue 79.



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I read Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962) one summer as a teenager. It’s a work of gothic horror, and a mystery novel. More specifically, it’s a strange, haunting story...

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