We Have Always Lived In The Castle


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Back Cover Text:THIS HORRIFIC AND BEAUTIFUL BOOK LINGERS IN THE MIND.....BOOKS AND BOOKMEN
"...frightening and tender-hearted story about the three rich survivors of a mass poisoning - arsenic and blackberries for pudding - Constance, believed by the villagers to have been the poisoner, her young sister Merricat, and dotty Uncle Julian who lives mostly in the gorgeous memory of the crime." - Siriol Hugh-Jones, Tatler
"Spine-chilling, hair-raising . . . thrilling and terrible and yet strangely beautiful." - The Guardian
"Shirley Jackson is surely one of the most compulsive, obsessive, spell-binding novelists alive." - Books and Bookmen
"Original and impressive." - Times Literary Supplement