Title: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Author: Shirley Jackson
Type: Fiction
Page Count/Review Word Count: 170
Rating: 5/5
This is easily one of the best books that I’ve read this year, a true classic that blows The Haunting of Hill House out of the water.
The idea is that we’re following the remnants of a family that’s survived a scandal in which someone put arsenic in the sugar and killed half of their relatives. This is revealed slowly through the words of our unreliable narrator, the youngest of two sisters who are still living in the family home with their uncle, who’s still suffering some PTSD.
I don’t want to say too much more because I don’t want to ruin the surprises that you’ve got in store. Suffice to say that there’s a lot of mistrust aimed towards the family from the villagers, and that all culminates in a scene at the end that’s reminiscent of The Lottery.
