Raising Demons

<p><b> '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</b> <p>'Our new house was waiting for us, eager, expectant, and empty' <p>Shirley Jackson skewered the trials of domestic life in 1950s America with wry wit and uncanny precision. In this sequel to <i>Life Among the Savages</i>, 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.</p>