{"product_id":"books-life-among-the-savages-by-shirley-jackson","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  'Sometimes, in my capacity as a mother, I find myself sitting open-mouthed and terrified before my own children'  As 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.   '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  'Comic masterpieces, laced with hints of the discontent that lies beneath' Guardian","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53673170272529,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780241387801.jpg?v=1781523695","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-life-among-the-savages-by-shirley-jackson","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}