Shirley Jackson\'s third novel, a chilling descent into multiple personalities Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old wiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with her neurotic aunt, and subsisting off her dead mother\'s inheritance.
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The Bird\'s Nest , Jackson\'s third novel, develops hallmarks of the horror master\'s most unsettling work: tormented heroines, riveting familial mysteries, and a disquieting vision inside the human mind.
But slowly, and with Jackson\'s characteristic chill, we learn that Elizabeth is not just one girl--but four separate, self-destructive personalities.
When Elizabeth begins to suffer terrible migraines and backaches, her aunt takes her to the doctor, then to a psychiatrist.
Shirley Jackson\'s third novel, a chilling descent into multiple personalities Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old wiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with her neurotic aunt, and subsisting off her dead mother\'s inheritance