{"product_id":"life-among-the-savages-shirley-jackson-9780241387801","title":"Life Among the Savages","description":"A darkly funny account of family life from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and The Lottery\n'Sometimes, in my capacity as a mother, I find myself sitting open-mouthed and terrified before my own children'\nAs well as being a master of the macabre, Shirley Jackson was also a pitch-perfect chronicler of everyday family life. In Life Among the Savages, her caustically funny account of raising her children in a ramshackle house in Vermont, she deals with rats in the cellar, misbehaving imaginary friends, an oblivious husband and ever-encroaching domestic chaos, all described with wit, warmth and plenty of bite. \n'Jackson's family chronicles have a genuinely subversive aspect ... Read today, her pieces feel surprisingly modern - mainly because she refuses to sentimentalize or idealize motherhood' The New York Times Book Review\n'Comic masterpieces, laced with hints of the discontent that lies beneath' Guardian","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52051334889760,"sku":"9780241387801","price":9.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780241387801.jpg?v=1785371954","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/life-among-the-savages-shirley-jackson-9780241387801","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}