We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Name: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Author: Shirley Jackson

by Shirley Jackson · 1962

Eighteen-year-old Merricat Blackwood lives in isolation with her sister Constance and ailing Uncle Julian, the only survivors of a family poisoning years before — until a money-hungry cousin arrives and the villagers' hostility boils over.

Books mentioned in We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1)

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: “"Robinson Crusoe dressed in the skins of animals," I told her.”