Shirley
A Novel
ISBN-13: 9780147516190
Contributor(s): Susan Scarf Merrell
Subject: Thriller / Suspense
Publisher Imprint: Plume
Publication Date: 23-07-2015
Format: Paperback
Availability: In stock
£13.99
About the book
Best known for her short story The Lottery', Shirley Jackson is a fascinating figure whose chilling tales of psychological suspense are still widely read and taught. In this darkly captivating novel, Merrell uses the facts of Jackson's life as a springboard to explore the 1964 disappearance of Paula Weldon, a Bennington College student. Told through the eyes of Rose Nemser - the wife of a graduate student working with Jackson's husband, a Bennington professor - Shirley reimagines the connections between Jackson's volatile marriage and one of the era's great unsolved mysteries.'