We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Paperback, 146 pages

English language

Published 2006 by Penguin Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-14-303997-6
OCLC Number:: 1088671693

(1 review)

My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise, I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead. (front flap)

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ralentina reviewed We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Loved it

5 stars

This book is sinister and comforting at once, a combination I did not think was possible. Through details, and carefully chosen words, Shirley Jackson injects creepiness into the everyday, and coziness into the darkness. I grew to love the murderer, and will forever be scared of New England's small villages. I must admit that I read this book on a great holiday after a few, long months of hard work. So, the perfect situation to fall in love with a book. That said, I thought it was a little masterpiece.