Books like The furies by Janet Hobhouse

After being murdered at fourteen, Susie Salmon watches from heaven as her family, friends, and killer grapple with grief and justice, revealing how love and forgiveness shape a family's future.

Shirley Jackson’s classic psychological horror, *The Haunting of Hill House*, follows a lonely woman drawn into an abandoned mansion whose malevolent presence ultimately consumes her.

Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer‑winning work follows Sethe, an escaped slave living in post‑Civil War Ohio, as she confronts the traumatic past that rises again in the form of a mysterious child named Beloved.

The Bell Jar is the sole novel by Sylvia Plath, a psychologically intense and autobiographical look at a young woman’s decline into mental illness.

A young bride, the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter, arrives at Manderley on the Cornish coast and finds her new home haunted by the memory and housekeeper’s obsession with her mysterious, stylish predecessor—Rebecca.

A tense psychological thriller that pits FBI agent Clarice Starling against the notorious cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter as they collaborate to catch a new predator.

A young governess in a remote estate discovers that the souls of two children are threatened by the malevolent ghosts of a former governess and her lover.

Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper follows a teenage girl who was born to serve as a perfect bone‑marrow donor for her sister’s leukemia, exploring family bonds, ethics, and identity as the siblings confront the life‑saving choices that define them.

A tale of witches, neurosurgeons, and secrets in New Orleans, exploring the power of the past and the present.

A heartfelt story about the enduring bonds of women in a Louisiana town, exploring friendship, motherhood, and the generational struggles that shape their lives.

Reta Winters’s quiet, contented life in Toronto shatters when her eldest daughter, Norah, abruptly leaves home, goes mute, and roams the streets with a "GOODNESS" sign. Carol Shields’ deft, tender narrative explores family bonds, motherhood, and the fragility of daily happiness.

Delia Byrd returns to Cayro, Georgia, to reclaim a former life and her two daughters after leaving a rock‑and‑roll existence in California.

A lyrical letter from a Zimbabwean mother to her Harvard‑attending daughter, weaving personal histories, social change, and intertwined family stories that illuminate Zimbabwe’s struggle for independence.

A Southern plantation drama where family bonds and buried secrets intertwine against the backdrop of modern South Carolina.

Psychiatrist Dr. Ellen Gulden is arrested after her mother’s death, a case intertwined with her past advocacy for euthanasia.

A mother-daughter team from Louisiana's past reappears six decades later, solving past misunderstandings and forging new alliances.

Recovered memory therapy, which has become a rapidly-growing industry in the past ten years, is based on the controversial theory that adults often suffer emotional problems because of forgotten childhood traumas. People who experience everyday difficulties like anxiety of overeating are now often told by therapists that the root of their trouble is a 'repressed memory' of abuse in childhood. The cure is to bring back the memory - a process that usually takes many months - and then publicly humiliate the alleged perpetrators of the abuse, most often the victim's parents. But are the supposed memories recovered in therapy genuine? Or are they concocted by therapists and clients in the course of therapy? Attempts to find independent corroboration of recovered memories have drawn a blank. Contrary to folklore, there is not a shred of scientific evidence for the notion that a memory can be repressed, and there is plenty of evidence that false memories can be created.