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ABOUT THE BOOK (from Amazon):
Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.
MY REVIEW:
Four members of the Blackwood family mysteriously die one evening. They are survived by Mary Katherine “Merricat” who was sent to her room without supper that night, her sister Constance and their Uncle Julian. Constance had been accused of poisoning the family and the surviving family members were outcasts in the community ever since. One day their cousin Charles arrives out of the blue and life as they know it changes forever.
I don’t know why but this cover kept calling to me for weeks until I finally picked up this book. It’s a short book, just 150 pages or so, and the story is captivating. The reading “flow” was a little bit of a challenge for me, but that may just be Shirley Jackson’s style that I’m not used to because I’ve never read anything else by her. The story is mysterious and suspenseful. I recommend it if you like dark fiction.