Tag: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

• The best books of 2015

  

  My apologies for the mixture of photos in this post – I have lent out some of the books featured so wasn’t able to take a nice photo of them and had to find images of the covers online. Not ideal, but there you go…   Somehow 2015 is over, and I have naturally been […]

  Lizzi

  January 1, 2016

  Fiction, Non-Fiction, Reviews

  19th Century, 2015, 20th Century, Adam Nicolson, Alias Grace, Ben McIntyre, best books of the year, Bonjour Tristesse, Forgotten Fatherland, Françoise Sagan, GoodReads, Hangsaman, Homer, Margaret Atwood, Margot Mifflin, Robyn Davidson, Shirley Jackson, The Blue Tattoo, The Haunting of Hill House, The Mighty Dead, Tracks, Vicotrian, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (1962)

  I had been wanting to read this for a while and finally got round to it last week… and it was just so brilliant. So weird. So good. Suffice to say, I gave it five stars on GoodReads. Even before reading I loved the premise, what I knew of it, and as with The Haunting […]

  Lizzi

  November 5, 2015

  Fiction, Reviews

  20th Century, Gothic, Mental health, Penguin, Penguin Modern Classics, PMC, Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle