'Hilarious subversive sharp without being lethal and loving without an ounce of sentiment
Shirley Jackson's more-or-less autobiographical account of life as a mother of four and faculty
wife (and brilliant writer) is an eternal comic joy' Amy Bloom 'Our new house was waiting for
us eager expectant and empty' Shirley Jackson skewered the trials of domestic life in 1950s
America with wry wit and uncanny precision. In this sequel to Life Among the Savages her four
offspring have now grown into fully-fledged demons. As their house starts to burst at the seams
the Jackson clan somehow manage (without really planning it) to move into a larger home only
to take the chaos - absent furniture vanishing children misbehaving refrigerators an
avalanche of books - right along with them.
