Uncle Julian, who uses a wheelchair, obsessively writes and re-writes notes for his memoirs, while Constance takes care of him. Constance has not left their home in six years, going no farther than her large garden. Mary Katherine "Merricat" Blackwood lives with her elder sister Constance and their ailing Uncle Julian in a large house on extensive grounds, in isolation from the nearby village. Its first screen adaptation appeared in 2018, based on a screenplay by Mark Kruger and directed by Stacie Passon. It has been described as Jackson's masterpiece. The novel was first published in hardcover in North America by Viking Press, and has since been released in paperback and as an audiobook and e-book. Six years before the events of the novel, the Blackwood family experienced a tragedy that left the three survivors isolated from their small village. The novel is written in the voice of eighteen-year-old Mary Katherine "Merricat" Blackwood, who lives with her agoraphobic sister and ailing uncle on an estate. It was Jackson's final work, and was published with a dedication to Pascal Covici, the publisher, three years before the author's death in 1965. We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a 1962 mystery novel by American author Shirley Jackson.
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