"I had buried all my baby teeth as they came out one by one and perhaps someday they would grow as dragons. All our land was enriched with my treasures buried in it, thickly inhabited just below the surface with my marbles and my teeth and my coloured stones, all perhaps turned to jewels by now, held together under the ground in a powerful taught web which never loosened, but held fast to guard us."

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‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’ by Shirley Jackson

This is an utterly delicious, captivating book.