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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
  • Published: 10 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241685044
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $24.99

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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Paperback
10 Sept 2024
Paperback
9 Nov 2009
EBook
1 Oct 2009
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The deliciously dark and funny story of Merricat, tomboy teenager, beloved sister - and possible mass murderer

Eighteen-year-old Merricat may, or may not be, a mass murderer

Six years ago everyone in the Blackwood family was poisoned by sugar laced with arsenic – everyone, that is, apart from Merricat and her elder sister Constance. They live in peaceful, ordered isolation, away from prying eyes in the nearby village, until one day boorish cousin Charles arrives with designs on their father’s fortune. Whether by practical or magical means, Merricat will do whatever is necessary to protect their home.
  • Published: 10 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241685044
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $24.99
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Praise for We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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

The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable ... She is a true master.

A. M. Homes

So eerie, so disturbing, and not a wasted word, it has the kind of economy I wish I knew how to achieve

Jonathan Coe

For me, it is that unique and dreamlike book ... that stands as her masterpiece

Jonathan Lethem

We Have Always Lived in the Castle is Jackson's masterpiece ... Stunning

Elaine Showalter

Manages the ironic miracle of convincing the reader that a house inhabited by a lunatic, a poisoner, and a pyromaniac is a world more rich in sympathy, love and subtlety than the world outside

Time

A witch's brew of eerie power and startling novelty

The New York Times