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”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.”

Amen, ni hör ju: ”dark neurosis”, ”deliciously unsettling”, ”perverse”, ”isolated”, ”murderous”,”COUSIN”!?!?!?!? Klart som fan att jag älskar den?!

”My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in our family is dead.”

Fantastiskt bok, även om jag blev frustrerad av slutet. Eller, jag blev nog frustrerad av hela boken? Av allt, men – på ett bra sätt. En bra frustrationsfeeling.

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Ps. Kolla in nummer 71 på den HÄR listan över de hundra bästa karaktärerna i 1900-talets litteratur. Ds.

(Det är Mary Katherine Blackwood, aka Merricat)(Välförtjänt)