Publisher Review

Her greatest book … at once whimsical and harrowing, a miniaturist’s charmingly detailed fantasy sketched inside a mausoleum … Through depths and depths and bloodwarm depths we fall, until the surface is only an eerie gleam high above, nearly forgotten; and the deeper we sink, the deeper we want to go — Donna Tartt An amazing writer — Neil Gaiman The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable … She is a true master — A. M. Homes A masterpiece of Gothic suspense — Joyce Carol Oates For me, it is that unique and dreamlike book … that stands as her masterpiece — Jonathan Lethem We Have Always Lived in the Castle is Jackson’s masterpiece … Stunning — Elaine Showalter Manages the ironic miracle of convincing the reader that a house inhabited by a lunatic, a poisoner, and a pyromaniac is a world more rich in sympathy, love and subtlety than the world outside * Time * A witch’s brew of eerie power and startling novelty * The New York Times * A marvellous elucidation of life … a story full of craft and full of mystery * The New York Times Book Review *